I

I

I know living isn't an easy thing to do

I know, it is not easy to live,

Or falling in love and singing of your girl

To give your heart and sing about your darling;

Taking a stroll under the stars at night

To walk around at nights under the light of stars,

Warming up in the sunshine by day

And to feel warm under the sunlight during the day;

Sneaking out for half a day to take it easy

To find an oportunity for half a day and,

On top of Istanbul's loveliest hill

To be able to sit back on the Çamlıca hill...

- Countless shades of blue flow in the Bosphorus -

-Thousand tones of blue flow through the Bosphorus-

And to forget all in the legions of blues.

To be able to forget everything in the blues.

II

II

I know living isn't an easy thing to do

I know, it is not easy to live;

But look

But you see

The bed of a dead man is still warm,

The bed of a dead man is still warm,

A dead man's wrist watch is ticking.

The wrist watch is still working on another.

Brother, living is no easy affair,

Living is not easy fellows, but,

But dying isn't easy, either.

Neither is to die;

Leaving the world isn't easy at all.

It is not easy to leave this world.