חתולים [Hatulim] [English translation]

How should I tell you that I love you

Can't find the right words

So I'm sending you

A cat video

I want to tell you that I've searched you cause love has no limits

But I don't want to stress you so I write

Hey, I saw you changed your profile picture

I want to tell you that I've missed you

But I also want to impress

So I quote Aviv Gefen

"The distance is a key which opened a gate to longing"

I read between the lines of thoughts you've shared that your relationships have been like a dry stream 1

And I want to say

That I'm the flood after the rain

Till now heat waves were enough for you 2

So if you're losing your grip like the falling leaves

Let me bring you the autumn

But I don't want to get you down

So I ask

How are you? What's going on?

Chorus...

I want to say

Do you remember high-school? We lived as if in an adolescent movie

You played the queen of the class and me in the role of the friend

The songs we danced to at prom when you've realized that I'm the one you've been looking for still play in my ears

But it feels cheap so I write

Do you believe how much time passed since high-school? Wow

I want to say

That it's difficult to forget how bitter was the taste of that break up

At the place you stood only air is left with no oxygen and I've tossed and turned in bed expecting you to come back

And you haven't

But I don't want to make you feel bad for it so I write

Lols, I remember the day you went away

And I want to ask why did you not reply to my letters

Why did you fly away like an illusionary butterfly

I want to ask why did you not want my words

Why did you let the abyss of longing

Turn my nights white and paint my days in deep gray

But I want to seem all cool

So I send you the letter 'h' three times 3

Chorus...

And after all

I want you to know how much I've tried

How much I wanted to find the right words

I went and searched in others' songs

And still haven't found how to say that you're

A river of water in the salt of the desert 4

You'll think it's strange for sure

A man of words that says nothing

1. According to a dictionary it's 'winter/seasonal stream' but I think this gets the point across better. 2. Possible reference to the song "שלל שרב" by Gidi Gov, seems like there's no actual literal meaning of the phrase. Just sounded appropriate to the person who named the song. 3. Like 'hahaha' in English. 4. In Hebrew 'drinking water' literally translates as 'sweet water', in contrast to the salt in the desert.

• Artist:Jimbo J