ölüm ışığa uzanmış [English translation]

If a young woman with a thin face walked into the lake

If her daisies had fallen off, withered before their time

At night, as the clock struck the midnight,

She knocked the night over with a few bottles of wine

She took off her skirt in the lake, stood naked

She never made crowns out of plucked flowers

She always knew that there was something strange about her

Which was why she ended up battered

Between her ribs, her windows would rattle

She prayed for one last time, she said "please choose me, life"

Somewhere far away, in every narrow street

Death reached for the light and the woman reached for death.

She had leant on love

The cities, the people, the dried roses she didn't love anymore

She held them, breathed them in, then threw them away

So that everything would be over by the time she woke up.

Also, she wasn't brave and her accent was bad

A day before she was eighteen, in the third class

Over the ruins, within this bottomless lake

She talked to the water, "have me as your guest, hold me in your arms"

If a young woman with a thin face walked into the lake

If her daisies had fallen off, withered before their time

Somewhere far away, she let herself go in the water.

Death reached for the light and the woman reached for death.