Another story, story of love

Can it be over

Can it be true?

All the words you said to me

Ring round my head like poetry

Everything you did for me

Like gold dust in my memory

But I am real, I’m alive

Yes I know how to survive

To be in love is divine

To be alone, well that’s just fine

Because I am an island

I am an island

There’ll be another story

Another story soon

Basking in the glory

Of a new moon

Must I live without you now

There is a way, I know how

To shelter from the winter storm

To protect myself from harm

Because love is bigger than today

Love has but a shallow grave

Love is bold, love is shy

Love is great and love is high

And I am an island

I am an island

© Paula Darwish 2003

Catch the sun in your mind, learn to fly

Without wings

Feel your heart beat in the sky

See your dream as if real in neon lights

Feel the one that you miss

Is by your side

All these things I can do

When I just want to be with you

But  I’m lost in this life

Always swimming against the tide

And I just wish that you were here with me tonight

When you’re here the future’s far away

Just to live, just to love

Fills all the days

But when you go

I feel tired and I don’t know

If I feel good if I feel bad, if I’m high or low

Will somebody give me an answer

Give me a sign

Lost in this life

Always swimming against the tide

And I just wish that you were here with me tonight

Now I don’t write this down to cry

I’m not trying to say goodbye

I’m not searching for sympathy

Or a quiet place to bleed

No I just want to speak my mind

All the things that we seek

We’ll never find

But some of the things that we want

May come in time

Are we just ships in the night passing

Lost in this life

Always swimming against the tide

And I just wish that you were here with me tonight

River Lea  ( türkçesi aşağıda)

Lost in the shadows and the summer breeze

Cold dark waters of the River Lea

A thousand secrets of  a thousand years of history

And there’s nothing pretty about it at all

Neglected houses and graffiti walls

Urban heroes and a stray dog yawning wide

And sometimes  in these days

I think just how good life can be

And lost in all my thoughts

I find myself by the river lea

Is it too much to want?

Because I ‘m hoping that it’s gonna flow forever so

Come on sista open your mind

Lay bare your soul and put it next to mine

Cos I’m all naked but I’m not feeling cold

Come on now, free your soul

Take it to the ocean and let it flow

With all this love we can sail on through the night.

Well I sit by the river sometimes on my own

Thinking how the city looks so old

And I shiver in the shadow of the people’s history

In this hostile city where the people feed

The spirit of love into the air we breathe

And leave their colour on these grey old factories

And sometimes in these days

I think of how hard life can be

Of all the hopes and dreams

Buried in the banks of the River Lea

When you whisper to me, you make me breathe

When you hold me in your arms, you set me free

When you take my love, you give me energy

And sometimes in these days

I think what life has brought to me

And lost in all my dreams

I find myself by the River Lea

Lea Nehri

Yaz esintisi  ve gölgesinde kaybolmuş,

İçerisinde yatan bin yıllık tarihinin

Bin sırları olan Lea Nehrının soğuk koyu sular.

Kıyılarında bakılmamış evleri

ve yazılarla dolu duvarları

Şehir serserileri ve esneyen bir sokak köpeğiyle

Hoş olmayan bir manzara

Bugünlerde hayatın ne kadar  iyi

olabilecegi olasılığını   düşünerek,   

efkậr içinde kayboluyor

Kendimi  Lea Nehri’nin kenarında buluyorum

Sonsuza kadar akmasını istiyorum

çok mu sey istiyorum

Hadi can yoldaşım açıkla fikirlerini

çıplak ruhun, ruhumun yanında

Bende  çıplağım ama hiç  soğuk değılim

Hadi özgürlüğe bırak ruhunu

Okyanusa götürüp taşır onu

bu guçlu sevda ile

butun gece boyunca yelken açar gemimiz

Zaman zaman tek başına nehir kenarında oturup

Şehrin ne kadar yaşlı olduğunu  düşünüyorum

ve bir halkin tarihinin gölgesinde ürperiyorum

Insanların yaşadıgı bu duşmanca kentte,

sevgi var nefes aldığımız  havanın içine

ve onlar bu gri havayı renklendiren bir halk

Bu günlerde, bazen hayatın

na kadar zor olabileceğini düşünüyorum  

butun hayal ve ümitler

Lea Nehri’nin içinde gömülü

Sonsuza kadar akmasını istiyorum

çok mu sey istiyorum

Bana fısıldadığın  zaman ben nefes alıyorum

kollarinda olduğum zaman, özğürlüğü tadıyorum

sana sevgili verince, senden kuvvet aliyorum

Bu günlerde, bazen hayatın

Bana neler götürdüğünü düşünerek

efkậr içinde kayboluyor

Kendimi  Lea Nehri’nin kenarında buluyorum