אבא [Aba] [English translation]

Dad, a friend told me to write a song about you

About everything I saw in your eyes

About the calm without words

The scents and the sounds

All of it was so beautiful in your eyes.

Dad, remember the roads to school

All the melodies out of the room

When you listened to how I sing

With a happy look

And the smile hiding between your lips.

Dad, the paths you loved to care for

I tried to win over you

I didn’t always understand how

Things will not always work out

I am different from you, but so much like you.

Dad, the old house is no longer there

We have moved, have advanced, have changed

We fill the missing gaps

With more familiar faces

Whatever each one of us thought missing.

Dad, the paths you loved to care for

I tried to win over you

I didn’t always understand how

Things will not always work out

I am different from you, but so much like you.

Dad, time has passed and we didn’t talk

Dad, forgive me

It took me time to understand – you belong to me

Like I belong to you

Like I love you

Let’s not keep it inside, lets talk.

Dad, a friend told me to write a song about you.

• Artist:Shlomi Shabat
• Album:(2008) אני שר אלייך