A Turkish song about time, life and Istanbul…
These are the lyrics of a Turkish song of the group called Ezginin Gunlugu (means 'Diary of Melody'); I translated the lyrics into English…
Like Ships
Come and sit next to me, tell me Istanbul
Do not the streets have their own language?
Lying against the sea, inhale the morning smoke
Who is left from the owners of the palaces?
World like ships, life like ships
Love like ships, goes by, goes by…
Seeing a dream like your eyes
Is not enough for me
My heart is a ship in an open sea
Voyage never ends
World like ships, life like ships
Years like ships, goes by, goes by…
My inside is Galata Tower, stone above stone
Wait till morning beside me in the way your heart desires
Come and sit next to me, tell me your affairs
Becoming silent has its own language
Lyrics & Music: Hüsnü Arkan
(Turkish Group- Ezginin Gunlugu)
P.S. Galata Tower is a stone tower in the Galata district of Istanbul built by Genoese. One of the city's most striking landmarks, it is a high, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline and affords a panoramic vista of Old Istanbul and its environs. According to the Seyahatname of Ottoman historian and traveller Evliya Çelebi, in circa 1630-1632, Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi flew as an early aviator using artificial wings for gliding from this tower over the Bosporus to the slopes of Üsküdar on the Anatolian side, nearly six kilometres away.
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