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Ani Shome'a Shuv

I Hear Again

by Shlomo Artzi

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shenat yetzia 1979
Release year 1979
ani shomea shuv berigey hashalva
I hear again in moments of calm
et ge'nis g'opelin shara beluz yashan
Janis Joplin singing an old blues
al bobi mak-ge'yy. revii kamerit
about Bobby McGee. A string quartet
menagenet musika tzelula maavira bi
plays lucid music sending through me
shuv otan tzemarmorot oneg yeduot.
those same familiar shivers of pleasure.
aval ani chayal - veal tivki li yalda.
But I am a soldier - and don't cry for me, girl.
ani mosif lalechet mosif bashevil hatzar,
I keep on walking keep on down the narrow path,
moshech bemaale hadorot rav hachatchatim.
pulling uphill through the rugged generations.
mealey tziporim, doot chofshiot
Above me birds, soaring free
veharucha bemerchavim - kemo koret tagar,
and the wind in the open spaces - as if calling out defiance,
aval ani chayal - veal tivki li yalda.
but I am a soldier - and don't cry for me, girl.
ahavti - rigey zichronot vegaguim terufim.
My love - moments of memories and frenzied longing.
al hashulchan sipurim shel tze'chov, keeven sheeyn
On the table stories by Chekhov, like a stone that cannot
lah hofchin, ki ani hu adam mechupas
be turned over, for I am a man disguised
lechayal, kafut bichtonet meshugaim -
as a soldier, bound in a straitjacket -
az bechi li yalda al rigey habedidut,
so cry for me, girl, over the moments of loneliness,
al hatzipiot veal hashanim, uvchi al
over the expectations and over the years, and cry over
sheney levavot ohavim urchokim.
two hearts that love and are far apart.
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