Pines lyrics

Lyrics: Leah Goldberg

Music: Achinoam Nini (Noa)

Transliteration:

Kan lo eshma et kol hakukiyah

Kan lo yachbosh haets mitsnefet sheleg

Aval betsel ha'oranim ha'eleh

Kol yalduti shekamah litchiyah

Tsiltsul hamechatim: hayoh hayah ---

Ekra moledet lemerchav-hasheleg

Lekerach yerakrak kovel hapeleg

Lilshon hashir be'erets nochriyah

Ulai rak tsiporei-masa yod'ot -

Kshehen tluyot bein erets veshamaim -

Et zeh hake'ev shel shtei hamoladot

Itchem ani nishtalti paamaim

Itchem ani tsamachti, oranim

Veshorashai bishnei nofim shonim

Translation by Noa:

Here I will never hear the blue-jay's song elated

Here a tree with wig of snow I will not find

But in the shade of all these solitary pines

All my childhood, reincarnated

The tingling of the needles is gone

Homeland I will call, a snowy distant dream

Greenish frost and ice enclose a mountain stream

A stranger's land, a foreign tongue in song

I remember those snow-capped mountains

And a song on F.M.93

Oh my darling, I have grown with you

But my roots on both sides of the sea

Perhaps only the migrating birds can ever know

As they're suspended beween the heavens and

The earth below

The pain I feel as I am torn

I have been planted and replanted with the pines

And it is with them I have grown

But still my roots spread over-seas

In a dichotomy of home