Paroles et traduction Selda Bağcan - Zam Zam

Zam Zam

Pahalılık alev gömlek giyemezsin demedim mi?
Her öğünde soğan ekmek yiyemezsin demedim mi?
Dünden pahalı bugünkü
Zamlar tükenmiyor çünkü
Dar gelirim sen bu yükü çekemezsin demedim mi?

Elin hayvar senin turşu
Buna koyamazsın karşı
Kimi eğri kimi doğru seçemezsin demedim mi?
Çimen toyu harç içinde
Alem her cü Merc içinde
İşçi kardaş borç içinde yüzemezsin demedim mi?

Akarsuyum bu ne illet
Durma sazım gene anlat
Soy gardaşım böyle millet bulamazsın demedim mi?
Soy gardaşım böyle millet bulamazsın demedim mi?

Zam Zam

Didn't I tell you that you wouldn't be able to put on your expensive shirt because of inflation?
Didn't I tell you that you wouldn't be able to eat onions and bread at every meal because of inflation?
Today's prices are higher than yesterday's,
because the price increases aren't going to stop,
Didn't I tell you that you wouldn't be able to bear this burden with your modest income?

When your neighbor's eating caviar, you have to make do with pickles,
you can't stop this,
Didn't I tell you that you wouldn't be able to make wise choices?
The wedding is plain, but the bride and groom have to pay a fortune,
Everybody at the wedding is showing off their luxury cars,
Didn't I tell you that you wouldn't be able to support a family as a worker, drowned in debt?

What's this plague, my river?
Don't stop, my instrument, keep singing
Brother, did I not tell you that you wouldn't be able to find such a nation as this one?
Brother, did I not tell you that you wouldn't be able to find such a nation as this one?