Description
The words sound like longing for a person who is sought not only with the eyes, but also through cities, rain and one's own doubts. They contain a mixture of Kurdish melodiousness and Istanbul fatigue: the streets of two shores that will never meet, love like a bridge across the Bosphorus, but without supports.
The music carries this story gently, like rain in August: sometimes it pours, sometimes it turns into steam, leaving only the smell of wet stone. Behind the cry of ‘nerdesin’ there is no hysteria, but tenderness mixed with stubbornness - the desire to find, even if you have already declared yourself divane. The result is a song-spell about how difficult it is to let go of someone who has grown into your heart, and how beautiful this pain sounds when filtered through rhythm and voice.
Lyrics and music: Bilal Grass
Producer: Sezer Dinç
Video: Breezy Mir
Executive producer: Emra Hocaoğlu
Lyrics and translation
Original
Neredesin ya delale? Derviş li divane.
Herkesin var bir yari, ben varmadım daha o yare.
Neredesin ya delale? Derviş li divane.
Herkesin var bir yari, ben varmadım daha o yare. Beni deli edip bir de deli mi diyorsun?
Sen için mi kendi için gibi biliyorsun? Bize bunca şeyi söyle niçin ediyorsun anlamadım.
Islak gözümü kurutup hakkımı arasam o aklını alırım ben. Susmak da bir mesele.
O kalbime hançeri saplasa boyun eğmem.
Çavre şamın bermayamın vere vere viyale. Neredesin söyle aramaktan oldum bir divane.
Neredesin ya delale? Derviş li divane.
Herkesin var bir yari, ben varmadım daha o yare. Neredesin ya delale?
Derviş li divane. Herkesin var bir yari, ben varmadım daha o yare.
İstavrit gibi bu aşkımız iki yaka. İki yaka be bir olamadı şaka maka.
Gönlümdeki bu yangını yaka yaka. Yaz yağmuru çare olamaz ama.
Çavre şamın bermayamın vere vere viyale. Neredesin söyle aramaktan oldum bir divane.
Neredesin ya delale? Derviş li divane.
Herkesin var bir yari, ben varmadım daha o yare. Neredesin ya delale?
Derviş li divane. Herkesin var bir yari, ben varmadım daha o yare.
Ege Pop'a.
English translation
Where are you, delale? Dervish divan.
Everyone has a half, I haven't reached that half yet.
Where are you, delale? Dervish divan.
Everyone has a half, I haven't reached that half yet. Are you driving me crazy and calling me crazy?
Do you know like it's for you or for yourself? I don't understand why you are telling us all these things.
If I dry my wet eyes and demand my rights, I will take your mind. Keeping silent is also an issue.
If he stabbed my heart with a dagger, I would not bow down.
Surrounding Damascus, Bermayam, Viale. Tell me where you are, I'm sick of searching.
Where are you, delale? Dervish divan.
Everyone has a half, I haven't reached that half yet. Where are you, delale?
Dervish divan. Everyone has a half, I haven't reached that half yet.
Like horse mackerel, this love of ours has two sides. It's a joke that both ends could not be the same.
Light this fire in my heart. Summer rain can't be a solution, though.
Surrounding Damascus, Bermayam, Viale. Tell me where you are, I'm sick of searching.
Where are you, delale? Dervish divan.
Everyone has a half, I haven't reached that half yet. Where are you, delale?
Dervish divan. Everyone has a half, I haven't reached that half yet.
To Aegean Pop.