Selda Bağcan - İnce ince (English translation)

Selda Bağcan – İnce ince

English translation

Turkish

Original lyrics

İnce ince

[1. Bölüm]

İnce ince bir kar yağar fakirlerin üstüne

Neden felek inanmıyor fukaranın sözüne?

Öldük, öldük biz açlıktan, etme ağam n'olur

Kimi mebus kimi vali, bize tahsil haramdır

Dayanamam artık senin bu yalancı pozuna

Yandık yandık bize okul, bize yol, bize hayat

Etme ağam, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur

Adam mı ölür yol yapılınca

Okul olunca, hayat bulunca?

N'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur?

[2. Bölüm]

İstanbul'un benzemiyor neden o Urfa'lara?

Yoksul Maraş, susuz Urfa, ya Diyarbakır'ların?

Yandık yandık, öldük öldük, bir yudum su

Etme ağam, n'olur

Öldük öldük, bir mektup yaz, yapma ağam

N'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur

Adam mı ölür toprak verince

İnsan sevince, kendin bilince?

N'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur?

[3. Bölüm]

Sen anandan, ben babamdan ağa doğmadık dostum

Gel beraber yaşayalım, sanma ki sana küstüm

Yandım yandım, ayrı gezme, etme gardaş

N'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur, n'olur

Adam mı ölür toprak verince

Borç ödeyince, kendin bilince?

N'olur, n'olur, n'olur gardaş, n'olur

English

Translation

Flaked

Flaked snow falls upon the poor

Why the faith is not taking the poor's word

We've starved to death, come now sir please

Some are member of the parliment, some are governer, it's forbidden for us to get educated

I can't stand your fake pose anymore

We're doomed, education to us, roads to us, life to us,

Come now sir, please, please, please, please, please please...

Why is it so hard to build new roads,

To build schools, to restore life

please, please, please, please please...

Why isn't Urfa like your Istanbul?*

Poor Maraş, dry Urfa, what about Diyarbakır?

We're doomed, we're dead, a drop of water

Come now sir, please...

We're dead, send a letter, come now sir,

please, please, pleas, please, please please...

Why is it so hard to give lands,

To love, to know oneself

please, please, please, please please...

We weren't born as lords, my friend,

Let's live together, don't think I'm upset with you,

I'm doomed, don't be seperated, come now, brother,

please, please, please, please, please please...

Why is it so hard to give lands,

To pay debts, to know oneself,

please, please, please brother please...

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Submitted by

Jansay on 2011-12-27

Added in reply to request by

Calusarul

Author's comments:

*Urfa, Maraş and Diyarbakır are some of the developing cities whereas Istanbul is the biggest city in Turkey.

Translations of "İnce ince"

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Comments

Calusarul

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 18:24

You've got some great rock music there in Turkey. And the world hardly knows about it. "Okuyun tarihi görün insanliğin hasini" :)

Jansay

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 20:31

How kind of you to say. :) This song is more like among a genre which we like to call "Anatolian Rock".

If you like Rock I highly recommend the Turkish rock band "Manga" if you haven't heard of them already. Most of their songs are already translated to English in this website.

Calusarul

Mon, 02/01/2012 - 11:51

I've just listened to Her Aşk Ölümü Tadacak by Manga. I also like Hyko Cepkin, Direc-t, late Bariș Akarsu. They sing/play modern rock and they do that very well, I like teir lyrics (well, rather the translations) as well. But I'm telling you that Anatolian rock is special (Selda, Cem Karaca, Bariș Manco). It reminds me of a Romanian rock band from the late 60s (Phoenix).

Calusarul

Tue, 03/01/2012 - 09:07

I noticed some differences between the lyrics and the video I posted here. If anyone is willing to tell me what to do to make things right, I'm at their disposal.

Jansay

Tue, 03/01/2012 - 13:31

Ah yes. These are the correct lyrics for the video: http://www.lyrics68.com/SELDA-BAGCAN-INCE-INCE-LYRICS/327404/

I'll re-arrange the translation immediately. Please apply these lyrics as soon as possible.

Calusarul

Tue, 03/01/2012 - 16:53

Done. Thanks.

Vasha

Tue, 19/11/2013 - 22:34

Excellent informative translation

Okyay Gökçül

Tue, 16/01/2018 - 21:50

"it's forbidden for us to get paid" must be "it is forbidden for us to get educated" ...very weak translation. "tahsil" means both education and collecting money in turkish.

Jansay

Wed, 17/01/2018 - 04:22

You're absolutely right, I'm so surprised how I had missed that. Corrected, thank you for bringing it to my attention. ^^