Yetiş Nerdesin [English translation]

neither do the mountains fall down, nor the walls

i heave a sigh and cry, come quick, where are you? (*)

springs dried up, springs don't come, alas, alas (**)

i sigh and cry, come quick, where are you?

where are you, my life, where are you, my rose

wait till i die so that you come then

on your white shirt, on your empty pillow

i rub my face, i cry, come quick, where are you?

i burned in your fire, turned into ashes burning, oh god, oh god

i kneel and cry, come quick, where are you?

(*) an allusion to a folk song, whose first line is bir of çeksem karşıki dağlar yıkılır the mountains over there fall down if i heave a sigh.

(**) the first spring is a natural fountain, the second one, the season.