You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,

You said: "I shall go to some other land, I shall go to some other sea.

find another city better than this one.

Another city there must be, better than this.

Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong

My every effort here is a sentence of condemnation against me,

and my heart lies buried like something dead.

and my heart—like a corpse—lies buried.

How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?

How long shall my mind remain smothered in this blight?

Wherever I turn, wherever I look,

Wherever I turn my eye, wherever I look,

I see the black ruins of my life, here,

I see the black ruins of my life

where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”

where I spent and spoiled and ruined so many years."

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.

Fresh lands you shall not find, you shall not find other seas.

This city will always pursue you.

The city shall ever follow you.

You’ll walk the same streets, grow old

In streets you shall wander that are the same streets and

in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.

grow old in quarters that are the same

You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:

and among these very same houses you shall turn grey.

there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.

You shall always be returning to the city. Hope not;

Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,

there is no ship to take you to other lands, there is no road.

you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.

You have so spoiled your life here in this tiny corner

that you have ruined it in all the world.