אחרי עשרים שנה [Acharai Esrim Shana] [English translation]
אחרי עשרים שנה [Acharai Esrim Shana] [English translation]
After twenty years
you are still playing
an old guitar
you still intend
from within the strings
the best song
that hasn't yet been written.
After twenty years
i'm not a child any longer
my youth ended
white hair spread out over the king
only you are still with me
with you i return again
to myself
Still with the same sound
still the same taste
stored like wine, fine wine
plays within me
a melody escapes
from within my fingers
go out into the street.
And the song again rises
and again until the end of my soul
the fruit of my longing
the days of pomegranate and vine
and the spirit within me still sings
the same string vibrates
twenty years.
Still with the same sound...
After twenty years
i had a dear friend
the Shir HaMa'alot1
did you listen
i'll sing to the day of my death
it will carry my prayer
the melody.
1. lit: song of going up to heaven. any of the 15 Psalms of David
- Artist:Shmulik Kraus