Jag Drar [English translation]

Cause I’m off

We’ve got nothing left

So I’m off

Can’t stay here

So I’m off

I might find answers

So I’m off

Ayo It doesn’t matter where

So I’m off

I’m off

Hi to everyone back home

I can’t turn around

I’m sliding

It’s called leaving

Everything behind me

What are you doing?

Take responsibility.

You have duties

And they’re in great number.

I’m taking trains

Running away to anywhere

I’m going, far away to anywhere.

Away from the debt collector

who sends me demands

Away from the gangster man

who throws me in a grave

Away from the boss

who makes me into a slave

Away from the police

who handle me with weapons

Away from the girl

who screams at me all day

Away I’m gonna navigate over the seven seas.

Here, there, away, wherever I like

And towards the horizon a little more

So I’m taking my things and all my possessions.

It goes so quickly that we barely can keep up with it all

I’m off now

Should have gone long ago

I might not return home.

But in that case

We’ll find a way to see each other again

Cause I’m off now,

Travelling to wherever

To somewhere where a man can be himself.

To a place where you’re better off

No hesitation, I’m off right away tonight.

Gonna travel round, round, and round again

“But what about your career?”

To hell with it

Sell my flat

Give away all my clothes

I’m on the way down

To cool new cities

Cause I’ve got people to meet

Places to see

Ready for most

A lot maybe,

Maybe I’ll need to sort out

A false passport, an atlas

Only the bare essentials

[I’ve been unable to find out what this means]

Think about this Tumbuk

Don’t do anything hasty

I must move

Cause I’ll die if I get stuck.

Say hi to all my friends

I’ll stay in contact,

And forget the business

Yeah, we sold the contract.

A place for a long time can’t give me anything

My instinct forces me to look around,

Cause the world is large

With more possibilities than you think

Doesn’t matter what it’s called where I live.

I’m off now

Should have gone long ago

I might not return home.

But in that case

We’ll find a way to see each other again

Cause I’m off now,

Travelling to wherever

To somewhere where a man can be himself.

To a place where you’re better off

No hesitation, I’m off right away tonight.

Maybe I’ll buy some plants in Amsterdam

Maybe I’ll lie down and sunbathe in Koh Pa Ngan

Maybe I’ll stand and shout

on Machu Picchu

Sort out the shit in Mogadishu

Maybe I’ll climb a palm tree in Sri Lanka

Chill on a windowsill in Casablanca

Swing by a certain town in Mali

Maybe get stupid [high] a whole day in Bali

Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, maybe Yemen,

Miami, Soweto, even Bremen

Maybe go to the market in Samarkand

Maybe I’ll be another man in another land.

• Artist:Timbuktu