Текст и перевод песни Berri Txarrak - Breyten

Breyten

Breyten zuen izena: Breyten Breytenbach
Hiltzera zigortua
Pretoriako kartzelan txuri bakarra
Beltz askoren artean

Egunsenti bakoitzan exekuzio bat
Heriotza tantaka
Lurra ireki baino lehen azken kantua bat
Kantatzen omen zuen kondenatuak

Breyten esnatzen zuten
Hiltzera zihoazenen
Kantu ezberdin horiek
Egunero batek

Breyten libratu egin zen urkatik
Baina inolaz ere kantu horietatik

Kondenatua

Breyten

Your name is Breyten: Breyten Breytenbach
Sentenced to death
The only white man in Pretoria prison
Amongst so many blacks

Every dawn a new execution
Death drop by drop
Before the earth opened up, a final song
They say the condemned man would sing

Breyten was awakened
By those who were going to die
Those different songs
One a day

Breyten was freed from the gallows
But not from those songs

Condemned