sufle - ne söz ne saz lyrics

(en: neither words nor songs)

as if it's out of its mind, 

a wind is blowing again

after i'm burned into a crisp,

it blows me into your hand

save me.

as if out of their minds,

people always stopped my ships

filled the depths of them with weights

save me.

if we keep waiting and waiting,

are we going to get any wiser?

are we going to suddenly see the truth?

look, it's not enough

neither words nor songs,

no one will understand me but you

as i drift away slowly, slowly,

nothing feels worth fighting for

look, it's not enough

neither words nor songs,

no one will understand me but you

[repeat.]

neither words nor songs,

neither words nor songs.

extra trivia:

• as turkish sentences usually don't need a noun to be complete, i'd like to specify that the line "as i drift away slowly, slowly" is a sentence without a noun in the original song. it can ambiguously mean "as i drift away" or "as we drift away" or "as something drifts away from us" or however the listener wishes to perceive it. 

  considering that the singer says "nothing feels worth fighting for anymore," i perceived it as her drifting away from her love interest. you interpret it as you wish.

• "nothing feels worth fighting for anymore" is a very localised translation for the readers to really comprehend the emotion of the lyric, but a more loyal translation would be "no war gives joy", signaling the singer is gradually losing her will to fight any kind of war.

• the singer uses the term "saz" in the title, which is a commonly seen instrument in turkey. a string instrument that resembles a guitar, it's prevalent enough in this culture that it is sometimes used as an overall slang for "music" and also "the act of making music". so, what the artist is really saying in this chorus is "neither my words or the music i make is enough to explain (as in: explain the next line: 'no one will understand me but you')". i simplified this phrase and translated it into "songs" for an easier reading.

 

more about saz: an instrument with 7 strings. it has a pear-shaped body, smaller and rounder compared to a guitar, and the fretboard is notably slimmer and longer. the number of frets can vary a lot depending on the type of saz being played. the default color is brown-yellow. it is usually played with a pick but sometimes also by hand.

 

• this is my personal take but the ships that the artist talks about in the line "people always stopped my ships" may be a reference to a commonplace turkish idiom, which can be literally translated to "did your ships sink in the blacksea?". this idiom is often used on people who seem really upset for an unknown reason. it's a spicy way of asking why the person in question looks so sad.