בלדה לעוזב קיבוץ [Baladah l'Ozev Kibbutz] [English translation]

Five years ago left the kibbutz

with a suitcase and waving bangs of hair

the said about him "we will see how he gets along outside.

you will see that he will return crawling to the cow shed"

he worked in a seedy steakhouse

lives with his aunt and survives on credit

on the kibbutz they organized a delegation

they could not tolerate the disgrace

Once in a blue moon he came to visit

he would disappear on a path, and would sit with his parents in the room1

blush a bit embarrassed and without much talking

"yes" and "no", "don't worry, everything is fine with me"

said that he didn't need, but took anyway

a kilo of Alexander and a few Jonathans2

and mumbled, "thank you, you know

just for the road, of course."

He will return in the end, he will return in the end

it is a small bug3 and it will pass, not important

he will return in the end, he will return in the end

it is a small bug and it will pass, not important

he, will return in the end

How the years pass, difficult to believe

he is without long bangs, slightly balding

they say he thinks on the left and lives on the right4

in a villa that he built, somewhere in Herzliya

and once in a blue moon he arrives for a visit

on his arm is his wife the actress

sitting with his parents eating watermelon

the kibbutz looks at his car.

He will return in the end, he will return in the end

it is a small bug and it will pass, not important

he will return in the end, he will return in the end

it is a small bug and will pass, not important

he, will return in the end

Someone from the kibbutz comes to visit the city

embarrassed with his backpack and waving bangs of hair

he serves a strong whiskey, "Drink young man"

and he smiles "tell me, so what is going on in the cow shed?"

loves to recline in the arm chair

to remind every time even when not necessary

in the surrounding fluent conversation

"When i was in the kibbutz..."

He will not return, he will not return

and why not and why, it doesn't matter

he will not return, he will not return

and why not and why, it doesn't matter

he, he will not return

1. in the old kibbutzim the word 'cheder - room' was used as an apartment2. Alexander and Jonathan are types of Apples3. phase4. political references

• Artist:Shmulik Kraus