Yorgun demokrat [English translation]

We passed through dark roads

We drank poison-like waters

On one side is death

On one side we loved lovers

Not once, but a thousand times we passed the bridge of As-Sirāt

{As-Sirāt (Arabic: الصراط‎ aṣ-ṣirāṭ) is, according to Islam, the bridge which every human must pass on the Yawm ad-Din ("Day of Judgment") to enter Paradise.}

We pierced straight through the chest of the malady that is called Hell

There were ones that turned back on this road

There were ones that got extinguished like candles

Without getting to place a head on a lovers chest

There were ones who got shot and fell

{The last two lines are meant to be understood together and inversed}

Only you were left behind

Oh, life goes flowing away

My heart understands you

Don't be silent anymore, tired democrat

Songs are sulking to the lip

The harvest is delayed in your life

Bothered with kids and children (Or in conflict with young people (not clear from lyrics)}

The democrat is in a livelihood struggle

He sighs whenever he remembers

The traces of those days

By falling down and getting up and getting stuck and then freed

The earthquake (figurative) he lived through

{The last four lines are meant to be understood together and the last two are meant to be understood inversed}

There were ones that turned back on this road

There were ones that got extinguished like candles

Without getting to place a head on a lovers chest

There were ones who got shot and fell

{The last two lines are meant to be understood together and inversed}

Only you were left behind

Oh, life goes flowing away

My heart understands you

Don't be silent anymore, tired democrat

• Artist:Ahmet Kaya
• Album:Yorgun demokrat