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hayiti paam beeretz acheret,
I was once in another land,
avarti leyad pesanter niganti,
I passed by a piano and played,
leyad eylat avadti bemidbar hapere,
Near Eilat I got lost in the wild desert,
afilu paam beyom kipur tzomtey,
I even once fasted on Yom Kippur,
baemtza portza milchama memushechet,
In the middle a prolonged war broke out,
al kol panim hayiti gam sham,
In any case I was there too,
hayiti itecha kesheba li lalechet,
I was with you when I felt like leaving,
hayiti shanim, hayiti daka.
I was for years, I was for a minute.
uvaemtza kesheomru li shemishehu met,
And in the middle when they told me someone died,
nanicha hechaver hachi tov beemet,
Let's say my very best friend,
bachiti mamash ki gam sham hayiti,
I really cried because I was there too,
sheney sentimetrim meatzev male.
Two centimeters from full sadness.
hayiti leyad atzey ashucha bakor haaz,
I was by spruce trees in the bitter cold,
bechag hamolad beemtza pariz,
On Christmas in the middle of Paris,
im kol hayehudim hayiti historya,
With all the Jews I was history,
hayiti gam bazeroot shel avi.
I was also in my father's arms.
hayiti beyom hashoa harishon,
I was on the first Holocaust Day,
uvayom hasheni uvayom hashelishi,
And on the second and on the third,
bachiti lifney shehalachti lishon,
I cried before I went to sleep,
sheney sentimetrim mimitat imi.
Two centimeters from my mother's bed.
hayiti keilu pinkas patucha,
I was like an open notebook,
o az batichon, yeled afifon.
Or back then in high school, a kite kid.
hayiti hasus basade kesheharucha,
I was the horse in the field when the wind,
heifa oti ad ligdot hayarkon.
Blew me all the way to the banks of the Yarkon.
hayinu balayla shebo kara haretzach,
We were there the night the murder happened,
hayinu baleylot shelo kara bahem kelum,
We were there on nights when nothing happened,
rakadnu merov shichrut lanetzach,
We danced from sheer drunkenness forever,
kaninu beyachad bekanyon sukar chum.
We bought brown sugar together at the mall.
halachti im kol hayeladim leveyt hasefer,
I walked with all the kids to school,
heelivu oti koru li shemot,
They insulted me and called me names,
kotvu alay bikoret chamisha amudey kasach,
They wrote about me a five-page review of nonsense,
yatzati mize im kol hakavod.
I came out of it with all my dignity.
hayiti mamash merchak kilometrim,
I was really a distance of kilometers away,
beta telefon im asimon mefarper,
In a phone booth with a fluttering token,
chazarti kedey lomar lach ahavti,
I came back to tell you I loved you,
aval at kevar hayit im mishehu acher.
But you were already with someone else.
hayiti bayom shealu layarecha,
I was on the day they went to the moon,
bayom shechozru bayom shenisu,
On the day they returned on the day they tried,
hayiti ze shenatan lach ta'perach,
I was the one who gave you the flower,
beyom hanisuin, beyom hachizur.
On the wedding day, on the day of courtship.
achshav ani kan zm kishkush batachat,
Now I'm here with nonsense in my behind,
yoshev vechotev vecholem vehoze,
Sitting and writing and dreaming and fantasizing,
hayiti ketzat kach vehayiti ketzat kacha,
I was a little like this and I was a little like that,
vetov shehayita iti bechal ze.
And it's good that you were with me through all of it.
hayiti vehayinu, hayiti vehayinu, hayiti vehayinu.
I was and we were, I was and we were, I was and we were.
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