Tuesday 27 April 2021

The taste of love

Today we add a new language to the list of sources, with the Turkish song Tadı sevdanın, which gives the post its title. I met it randomly on lyricstranslate, analysed it on 10/4/21 going into the night and submitting a Latin version that encoded the analysis at 1:09, and then finally got around to translating it on 24/4/21, starting around 3am, with the repeated parts, and then, after a couple tweaks around 10:30, struggling with the rhymes of the rest at 12:25-12:39, with tweaks around 16:45. In the evening of 25/4/21, I make my Persian translation of this for lyricstranslate and, comparing with the other translation, I realize «Warriors still have hope left when they / A step back must take» and «It's for yourself that you're late» are mistranslations, and fix them both at 23:56. Then I ask about the difference between three words for loved use here, and based on the answer I decide aşk is more like "crazy love" and the other two can be rendered both generically as love. So on 26/4/21 at 12:24 and 12:25 respectively the parts «All those loves» and «That's the truth of love» take their current forms. On 17/2/23 I think back to this and, at 15:46 IT and 15:54 IT, while flying to Istanbul, I change «A flower doth make to grow» to the below and «Baby mine, you'll be so sad» to «Baby mine, so sad you'll be» and «You'll be so sad, darling dear», which becomes the below at 9:09 Turkish time the following morning. Let's see it!


Tükenir biter gider
Bitmez dediğin aşklar
Geriler teslim olur
Savaşçı umutlar
Kurşuna dizilir hep
Doğmamış duyguların
Yine de çıkar bir yerden
Tadı sevdanın

*Her acı büyütür
Içindeki çiçeği
Dönersin kendine:
Budur aşkın gerçeği
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@İnan, inan ki çok
Üzülürsün
Kendinsin geç kaldığın
Unutma: çıkar bir yerden
Tadı sevdanın
Bebeğim, üzülürsün
Kendinsin geç kaldığın
Unutma: çıkar bir yerden
Tadı sevdanın

Eriyip biter gider
Kar misali arzular
Acısı çıkar yılların,
Zordur yarınlar
Sevgidir sana kalan:
Düzeni bu dünyanın.
Unutma: çıkar bir yerden
Tadı sevdanın

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Crazy loves you say won't end,
They'll die and leave you one morn
All the warrior-hopes surrender,
One step back they take
They are destined to be shot,
Those feelings of yours unborn,
Even now, from somewhere there doth
Come of love the taste.

*Every pain in your heart
A flower causes to grow
You get back to yourself:
That's how mad love works, you know
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@Don't think, don't think you won't
Be so sad, babe:
It's you yourself who are late.
Don't forget: from somewhere there doth
Come of love the taste.
You'll be so sad, my baby:
It's you yourself who are late.
Don't forget: from somewhere there doth
Come of love the taste.

All your wishes just like snow
Eventually melt away,
With this grief from all the year,
With hard days you're faced.
Yet this love will stay with you:
This of the world is the way
Don't forget: from somewhere there doth
Come of love the taste.

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