What are you going to do,
when your house turns into a den,
What are you going to do,
when your city turns into Sodom,
What are you going to do
on the ashes of these worlds,
Under the flock of the crows seeking a food,
among the thieves and slaves
who lost their homes -
You will be playing the flute! /4 times
What are you going to do,
when you are barefoot and naked
In front of the entrance to smoke -
"Open, oh Simsim!"
There was a house that didn't have enough water.
What are you going to do
with this war, plague, madness, grief,
Having returned back home
not as the one you were before,
but not as the one you have become,
my darling, -
You will be playing the flute! /Many times