Teoman - İstanbul'da Sonbahar (Autumn in İstanbul)












 



Mevsim rüzgarları ne zaman eserse

O zaman hatırlarım

Cocukluk rüyalarım

Şeytan uçurtmalarım

Öper beni annem yanaklarımdan

Güzel bir rüyada sanki sevdiklerim

Hayattalarken hala



Akşama doğru azalırsa yağmur

Kız Kulesi ve adalar

Ah burda olsan çok güzel hala

İstanbul’da sonbahar



Her zaman kolay değil

Sevmeden sevişmek tanımak bir vücud

Yavaşça öğrenmek alışmak ve kaybetmek

İstanbul bugün yorgun üzgün ve yaşlanmış

Biraz kilo almış ağlamış yine

Rimelleri akıyor

Whenever winds of season blow

That's when I remember

My childhood dreams,

My devil kites.

My mother kisses me on the cheeks,

In a beautiful dream

As if my loved ones are still alive.



If the rain wanes as the evening nears,

Maiden's Tower and the Princes' Islands

If you only were here, it's still beautiful

Autumn in İstanbul



It's not always easy

To make love without loving

To get to know a body

To learn slowly

To get used to it and then lose it



İstanbul is tired today,

She is sad and aged,

and put on a little weight

She cried again

Her mascara is running

Teoman - Renkli Rüyalar Oteli (Hotel of Colorful Dreams)

"You drive", I told her, "I'm drunk"
Let it slide, hit the gas
This hotel is nice, I like the name
Touch me where nobody else touched before, there

Let's get drunk, let's forget who we are
Let's become clouds, one in another, and pour rains
Let's get drunk, let's become one body
Let's take high dose of love and die happily here.

It was years ago, and it was beautiful when I think about it now
"You're mine" I said, "And I'm yours"
At the hotel of colorful dreams
It was years ago, and it was beautiful when I think about it now
"You're mine" I said, "And I'm yours"
At the hotel of colorful dreams

I knocked on doors only to be scattered unanswered
to the people with never-beating hearts
"But you're different" I said, and you said
"Be careful, I'm only loyal to myself"

Let's get drunk, let's forget who we are
Let's become clouds, one in another, and pour rains
Let's get drunk, let's become one body
Let's take high dose of love and die happily here.

It was years ago, and it was beautiful when I think about it now
"You're mine" I said, "And I'm yours"
At the hotel of colorful dreams
It was years ago, and it was beautiful when I think about it now
"You're mine" I said, "And I'm yours"
At the hotel of colorful dreams

Teoman - O (She)

She, used to see everything from her side
Take what she wanted, think about nothing else
And forget about me.
Every moment of hers is filled with excitement,
Even at the times she upset me
It scared me to feel her absence.

That's why I did everything near her,
and she looked at it all from a distance, like a stranger.
While she tricked me like she listened to every word I say,
Thousands of voices in her outnoised my voice.

She seemed as if she looked forward to every day with a new hope,
but she did not believe in tomorrow, she just comforted me.
Every moment of hers is filled with excitement,
Even at the times she upset me
It scared me to feel her absence.

Teoman - Rüzgar Gülü (Wind Rose)

I ran into a wind rose on the porch of a country house
I started talking to it as if it was a human
I said, if you are as lonely as I am
If you are a one-night stand
If you are escaping a memory
that's loaded on your shoulders
If you've hit rock bottom or if you're still falling

On a summer day, on a summer day
Have you ever felt this cold?
Wind rose, o wind rose
Have you ever thought about death?

Nameless woman in my delusion
As if your taste lingers in my mouth
I'm sure you've always searched for yourself as well
The road to my home has forgotten me, in the coldness of hotels
All these strange feelings
Some kind of an internal bleeding

On a summer day, on a summer day
Have you ever felt this cold?
Wind rose, o wind rose
Have you ever thought about death?

Teoman - Aşk Kırıntıları (Love Crumbs)

Draw yourself slowly, near me
Take me in you again, hide me down deep, put me in your hurricane
Don't lie to me, look in my eyes, it cannot have ended.
Check your pockets, some love crumbs must have been left.

Rather than getting full on love crumbs,
I'd starve in this life, by myself
If there's nothing left to share
Between a man and a woman

I walk on a rope, without a net beneath
I'm all dark inside
Believe me, I tried hard
To love this heartless world
What do I have but you
Please for the last time
Check your pockets, some love crumbs must have been left.

Rather than getting full on love crumbs,
I'd starve in this life, by myself
If there's nothing left to share
Between a man and a woman

Teoman - Paramparça (Shattered in Pieces)

I don't have a watch, I don't know exactly,
It was some beer and some wine ago
How come when time just won't pass
Years, lives fly by.
I feel like a lost bag at the airport
Or an empty swimming pool in autumn
Is it shameful to still wish for happiness
Well, I don't feel like it anyway

Today is my birthday
I'm both drunk and mourning
Sitting on a bar stool,
I'm at the age my father died.
Today is my birthday
Words grow big in my mouth
All the lives I've known are

Shattered in pieces, shattered in pieces

I am worn out, yet I reached for the phone
For a last apology to all the women whom I've loved
I dialed and got messages, I hung up
I'm one of those that can't talk to answering machines.

Today is my birthday
I'm both drunk and mourning
Sitting on a bar stool,
I'm at age my father died.
Today is my birthday
Words grow big in my mouth
All the lives I've known are

Shattered in pieces, shattered in pieces

Teoman - Kupa Kızı ve Sinek Valesi (The Queen of Hearts and the Jack of Clubs)

In a fortune-telling game
We were matched with one another
She was the beautiful queen of hearts
And I was the Jack of Clubs

Midnight, that Thursday
I ran into her on the bridge
"Don't cry" I told her, yet she did
As she stepped down from the railing

Is your hair wet, or is it wet to live, I asked
Is there always rain in the wind for you?
Are you lost in thoughts, or are you bored of questions?
Does the autumn never leave your eyes?

(CHORUS x2)
Be a snowflake, land on the tip of my tongue
A snowflake, melt in my mouth

She was soaked, she undressed
She touched my body.
On my slightly rough skin,
She found my life cells.
I was happy, she fell asleep
I held her as she mumbled in her sleep
The names I didn't know
Barenaked by my side

Is your hair wet, or is it wet to live, I asked
Is there always rain in the wind for you?
Are you lost in thoughts, or are you bored of questions?
Does the autumn never leave your eyes?

(CHORUS x2)

I was proud in my dream, "I knew", I said.
It turns out you must believe fortune-telling games.
I woke, and kept staring
At the writing an imaginary finger left
On the mist of the window
"Goodbye"