Rapsodi İstanbul [English translation]

I said: Take it, here is all my money.

Nevermind - he said, keep it by yourself

Give me a little piece of your food, that's enough

Look around yourself, Don't dare to be one of them

Get on your way, step by step, leave this place

Yellow leaves are on the streets

And rainwaters are in the gutters

Which city has this much pain?

Where else, as much as Istanbul?

(Leave!) May the leaves be your bed

May the martins be your friends

May the stars be your blanket

They're hanging uselessly in the night sky, anyway

It's late for me, but do this, get away from this place

Life does not end up 'till it comes to an end,

But it does end up just when it really comes to an end

Drink all the wines of this world

Slide down on the wet decks of all the beautiful women

May the greatest loves always be yours

They're useless within other people anyway