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Oma laulu ei leia ma üles → English translation

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Original lyrics

Oma laulu ei leia ma üles

Üle vainude valendab aur

Vahulillede udune voodi

Igaühel on südamelaul

Igaühel on see isemoodi

Lähen karjateed, karukell käes

Kutsun hiliseid laule ma koju

Ja nad tulevad männiku mäelt

Kõige viimane udus veel ujub

Minu laule vist teavad siin kõik

Udus ripuvad kellukakannud

Sest et kõik nad siit karjamaalt sõid

Nüüd üks vallatu plehku on pannud

Üle vainude valendab aur

Mul on närbunud karukell süles

Igaühel on siin oma laul

Ja ma oma ei leiagi üles

Translation

I Cannot Find My Song

Vapour, white over the meadows1

The misty bed of milkworts2

Everyone has a heartsong

And everyone's is different

I walk down the herd path3, a pasqueflower4 in hand

I'm calling home the lingering songs

And they come from the pine grove hill

The last one still floats in the fog

I guess everyone here must know my songs

Bellflowers5, swinging in the fog

Because it's here where they all are at grass

Now a wayward one has run away

Vapour, white over the meadows

The withered pasqueflower in my lap

Everyone has their own song here

And I cannot find mine

1. This song is also performed by Metsatöll, an Estonian folk/world metal band. Lyrics taken from my previous translation of the song: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/oma-laulu-ei-leia-ma-%C3%BCles-i-cannot-fi...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygala
3. This is the literal translation of the Estonian word. In Estonian, a 'herd path' refers to a path by which cattle is lead to a pasture. Hence, here a 'herd path' does not refer to a shortcut trodden by people.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsatilla
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanula

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Submitted by

Pääsuke on 2016-12-29

Added in reply to request by

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Last edited by

Pääsuke on 2021-06-29

Author's comments:

Translation partly based on this version: https://lyricstranslate.com/et/oma-laulu-ei-leia-ma-ueles-i-cannot-find-...
Thank you to [@Ymdeithydd] for directing my attention to vahulill, a flower the name of which I had mistranslated and my thanks also for other general corrections, of both the lyrics and the translation.

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Comments

sandring

Thu, 29/12/2016 - 08:54

Thank you, dear, for your translation. Good English but I have a couple of questions rather than suggestions.
Vapour is hot, coming from a geyser or an exhaust nozzle
Graze sounds quaint in here as it's definitely not about cattle. Can we say "It's here where they all are at grass" ? That has the same meaning but sounds more figurative. This one is a miss But a wayward one has run away, what did you want to say? :)

sandring

Thu, 29/12/2016 - 13:26

Dear, that's why I'm asking questions as I can't understand the original I point out what looks quaint when I read the translation

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Heli Lääts

Oma laulu ei leia ma üles → English translation

Oma laulu ei leia ma üles

I Cannot Find My Song