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Diferentzirik ez da

Diferentzirik ez da
Diferentzirik ez da;
hemen inor ez da inor baino gehiago.
Diferentzirik ez da,
–ez da– eta ez da gutxiago.
 
Diferentzirik ez da
Diferentzirik ez da;
hemen inor ez da inor baino gehiago.
Diferentzirik ez da,
ez da.
 
Proposatzen duenak beti hitza motz
ta deus proposatzen ez duena ez da inoiz ados.
Aldaketa nahi dugu kanpoan, etxean,
baina ez da deus aldatzen gu aldatu ezean.
 
Gera giten eragiten ez dakit dakiten
bestela ezin dela irten
diferentzietatik. Gugatik
paretak hautsi ta hasi zubiak egiten.
 
Ikusten ahal da eta ikusten ahal zen
beltz bat zurien kalean aginduak zabaltzen
baina ez dut ikusi zuririk orain artean
beltzen kale batean ordulariak saltzen.
 
Herritar, auzapez, ministro, presidente...
bada hierarkia inkoerente dexente
txikiago batean gainean dagoena tente
beti egonen baita handiago baten menpe.
 
Mundu libre batean, diferentzirik ez da.
Zu ta nire artean, diferentzirik ez da.
Barnean ditugun aurreiritziak kentzean
eta norberak sortu ezean...
 
Diferentzirik ez da
Diferentzirik ez da;
hemen inor ez da inor baino gehiago.
Diferentzirik ez da,
–ez da– eta ez da gutxiago.
 
Diferentzirik ez da
Diferentzirik ez da;
hemen inor ez da inor baino gehiago.
Diferentzirik ez da,
ez da.
 
Txanpon ainitz dituenak atxikitzen ditu denak,
sakela estuen dutenak dira esku zabalenak!
Goitik beherako eskemak dira
behetik gora eraikitzen hasi behar direnak.
 
Lapurren beldur dena da lapurra,
besteengan islatzen da maiz norberaren beldurra.
Naturak eman dizkigu zuhaitzak, guk hari egurra,
nork ezberdindu gaitu gu ta lurra?
 
Beharbada, dioten erara
animalien ta gure artean diferentzi bat bada:
munduko gatazketan jarriz begirada
edozein espezie baino basatiagoak gara!
 
Aditu, denontzat lege berdinak zituzten aurkitu.
Nahiz justiziak pertsonak ezberdintzen segitu,
heriotzak guztiak berdinduko ditu.
 
Mundu libre batean, diferentzirik ez da.
Zu ta nire artean, diferentzirik ez da.
Barnean ditugun aurreiritziak kentzean
eta norberak sortu ezean...
 
Diferentzirik ez da
Diferentzirik ez da;
hemen inor ez da inor baino gehiago.
Diferentzirik ez da,
–ez da– eta ez da gutxiago.
 
Diferentzirik ez da
Diferentzirik ez da;
hemen inor ez da inor baino gehiago.
Diferentzirik ez da,
ez da.
 
(Gaur denak berdinak gira—ta guztiak desberdin)
 
Translation

There is No Difference

There is no difference
There is no difference;
here nobody is more than anyone.
There is no difference,
—there is none— and is not less.
 
There is no difference
There is no difference;
here nobody is more than anyone.
There is no difference,
there is none.
 
He/she1 who makes suggestions is always short
and he/she who suggests nothing is never in agreement.
We want change outside, at home,
but nothing changes if we do not change ourselves.
 
We are making it happen, I don't know if they know,
otherwise there is no way out
of differences. For us
break walls and start building bridges.
 
It can be seen and it could be seen:
a black person giving orders amongst whites,
but I have yet to see a white person
selling watches on a street full of blacks.
 
Citizen, mayor, minister, president…
there is plenty of incoherent hierarchy.
he/she who is stands on one who is smaller
has always been under someone bigger.
 
In a free world, there is no difference.
Between you and me, there is no difference.
When we get rid of the prejudices that we have within,
and when we do not create more…
 
There is no difference
There is no difference;
here nobody is more than anyone.
There is no difference,
—there is none— and is not less.
 
There is no difference
There is no difference;
here nobody is more than anyone.
There is no difference,
there is none.
 
He/she who has many coins keeps them all,
those who have the least2 are the most generous!
The schemes from top to bottom
are ones that must be built from the bottom up.
 
He/she who is afraid of thieves is a thief,
one's own fears are often reflected upon others.
Nature has given us trees, we have given it stick3,
who differentiated us and the earth?
 
Perhaps, in the way that they say,
there is a difference between us and animals:
that looking at the world's problems,
we are more savage than any other species!
 
Listen, they found the same laws for all,
even if justice continues to differentiate people,
death will equalize all.
 
In a free world, there is no difference.
Between you and me, there is no difference.
When we get rid of the prejudices that we have within,
and when we do not create more…
 
There is no difference
There is no difference;
here nobody is more than anyone.
There is no difference,
—there is none— and is not less.
 
There is no difference
There is no difference;
here nobody is more than anyone.
There is no difference,
there is none.
 
(Today, we are all the same—and all different)
 
  • 1. There are no gendered pronouns in Basque.
  • 2. Literally, 'those who have the slimmest pockets'.
  • 3. The similarity of expressions is curious and works very well in translation. The only difference is 'egurra'–wood–instead of 'stick'.
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