Original lyrics
Turkish
Translation
English
Çilingir
Locksmith
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When the sun is going down in this city
Plenty of you* appear in the sky.
The deliverers** know well what's my trouble.
Tonight all of the stars are at my table.
Unless you come in, then rakı will comes in home***.
If only you both come in together tonight oh how nice
The inconsistent movie of the dream and the real one
Is it possible to not blow a fuse?
Be proud of that, it is worth.
Who says "men don't cry", then he hasn't met you.
This city doesn't have a mind to understand me
I don't have a mind to forget you
The rakı doesn't have a mind to warm.
Though it's called 'locksmith'
This table can't find a solution,
Though it kneels down in front of the You-named door
This city doesn't have a mind to understand me
I don't have a mind to forget you
The rakı doesn't have a mind to warm.
My eyelids are now tired
What still couldn't sleep is my heart,
Eye would shrink from opening if it had
Those dreams which the heart had had.
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Author's comments:
"çilingir" means "locksmith".
a dining table that has been set very well and rakı is drunk, it is colloquially called "locksmith's table".
"rakı" is a very known traditional alcohol in Turkey and in Greece.
*
the Turkish pronouns
sen: singular-informal you
siz: plural you, or, formal you
"plenty of you" is related to "sen". it actually means "many copies of yours appear in the sky"
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**
in Ottoman era, the waiters who were delivering wines used to be called "saki". i had to translate it "deliverer", it tells the wine-deliverers.
***
there is a Turkish proverb "güneş girmeyen eve doktor girer [doctor comes in home where no sun comes in]". Onur Can adopted this proverb to his lyrics. in the poem, the lover is "sun" and the rakı is "the doctor"
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