Locul sfințește omul [English translation]

I am leaving home for you

And back home I arrive

Sometimes even years pass by,

I should have bought some tickets a long time ago

I am on my driveway

I am at the kiosk on the corner

I think it disappeared all of a sudden

With the trees that were once football goals

It's as though part of me had remained

The only place that seems

The time didn't change by the clock

Looking for a ball in the parking lot

[Refrain x 2]:

The pavement knows me, the building knows me as well

Even if I see that a lot of things changed

Sometimes the place blesses the man 1

When he doesn't forget where he came from

How big looks the neighborhood when you are little

When the hall keeps you warm and cold

When I arrived at the window to ask for a bretzel 2

Cause that's all I needed to be happy

The school's yard was the Bernabeu 3

On the hot cement, I spent all my summers

Give me your t-shirt, I will give you mine

Cause that's how they did on TV

We were lifting iron, in fact, it was the carpet bar

Ripping our clothes playing catch in the parking lot

In the same places that I now hurry through

Feels the same but it smells like change

The world is big around the neighborhood

You cannot wipe out the sould with an eraser

And when mine is cold like an ice bucket

Then its time to come back at it

[Refrain x2]

1. It's a play on words based on the saying "Omul ѕfіnțеștе locul", which can be translated as "A good farmer makes a good farm".2. Covrigi are Romanian baked goods similar to pretzels. They consist of bread topped with poppy seeds, sesame seeds or salt grains.3. The Bernabéu Stadium is a football stadium in Madrid, Spain.

• Artist:Smiley