Текст и перевод песни Chris Chameleon - Vertrek Van Die Twaalf

Vertrek Van Die Twaalf

Moenie vir my se
Wie ek is nie
Want ek weet wie
Weet jy dan nie?
En jou vertoe
Dat ek in jou moet glo
Val op die dowe ore
Van die een waarin jy nie glo

Stemme verhef
Deure wat klap
Swart atmosfeer
Het oor ons huis toegesak
Waar is die lag?
Waar is die lig?
Wens ek wis wat dit is
Wat ons vrede hier ontwrig

En ek weet nou
Wat die waarskuwing was
Die woorde wat geval het
Toe ons in die ban was
Van die woede wat ons dwaas
In ons vasgebind het
Die woorde wat onvanpas
Hul weg uitgevind het

Die swaard maak seer
Wonde genees
Maar wat gebeur
As woorde die hart kneus?
Lank na die tong
Rus in sy skede
Ontkom die liefde
Aan onherstelbare gebreke...

En dis te lank laas dat ons saam gelag het
En dis te lank laas dat ons mekaar hoog geag het

Ek't op soek gegaan na die antwoord
Op die vrae oor die aard van wat ons
Rus en vrede verstoor
En dit lyk my dit hang saam
Met die vertrek van die twaalf letters
In liefde en respek.

Departure of the Twelve

Don't tell me, love,
Who I am not
For I know who
Know you not?
And your pleas
That I should have faith in you
Fall on deaf ears
Of one in whom you have no faith

Voices raised,
Doors slammed shut,
Black moods,
Our home has become.
Where is the laughter?
Where is the light?
I wish I knew what
Has taken our peace from us.

And I know now
What the warning was
The words that fell
When we were under
The spell of anger that made us fools,
Binding us to each other.
The words that inappropriate
Found their way.

The sword has done its damage,
The wounds will heal,
But what happens
When the heart has been crushed by words?
Long after the tongue
Lies still in its sheath,
Love escapes
Through the irreparable breach...

And it's been too long since we laughed together,
And it's been too long since we held each other in high esteem.

I've been searching for the answer
To the questions about the nature of what
Has broken our peace and quiet
And it seems to me it has something to do
With the departure of the twelve letters
In love and respect.