Hep kahır [English translation]

Stop! Let the water of the coffee boil,

Tell me about Istanbul, how was it?

Tell me about Bosphorus, how was it?

June is washed by the runaway rains with vibrations,

Would that seven hills get dried by*

Such a hot sun like a mothers care...

Tell me people laughed there,

In trains, ferries, buses.

I like it even if its a lie, say it.

Always agony, always agony, always agony

Had enough...**

Stop! Let it stay, don't turn the TV on

Tell me about Istanbul, how was it?

Tell me about the city of cities, how was it?***

While looking in my forbidden eyes from the hills of Beyoglu,

Make compliment about bridges, Sarayburnu, minarets and halic.

Could you say a hello, secretly...

Tell me people laughed there,

In trains, ferries, buses.

I like it even if its a lie, say it.

Always agony, always agony, always agony

Had enough...**

Stop! Leave it, don't move stay like that, please

Your scent is like Istanbul, and your eyes like Istanbul nights.

Now come and hug, hug me the one with henna.

Under the sky, just there together

The dream of starting over by saying thanks god

Is like a river in the desert of your longing.

Tell me people laughed there,

In trains, ferries, buses.

I like it even if its a lie, say it.

Always agony, always agony, always agony

Had enough...**

• Artist:Cem Karaca