Ben Yaşarım [English translation]

I cried at your absence inside me

I tied the nights with the days

I forbid your name to come out of my lips

I put my heart up against the walls

I connected your absence to my mistakes

It's late now, but I just understood

I'll become a flood and flow

Become a desert and burn

Become a rock and be quiet

Become words and fly away1

Tell me, oh,

my raging, free,

always brave and rebellious soul

Are you too afraid now to love?

Tonight, by myself

I'll walk away and cry at once

I tied all my troubles to my hair one last time

When day comes, once again I'll rise out of my ashes

I'll flow, overlow, become the road, and I'll live

I hope someone loves you more one day

You know, I always keep everything inside

Now I'll land in lands I don't know

I'll flow, overlow, become the road, and I'll live

1. This could be a reference to the Latin proverb (that exists in Turkish as well) "Verba volant, scripta manent", meaning "Spoken words fly away but written words stay."

• Artist:Sertab Erener
• Album:Ben Yaşarım