Lyrics translations (Albanian music)

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLn-cEF8dqI

In your arms
I've found my place
Cause there nothing hurts
Cause with you my soul rests
In my arms
When I smell your perfume
The heart fills with love
I'm sure with you, I know

I want to grow up with you
I want to grow old with you
Because you don't know
All my life I've been searching for you

Now that I found you
Please stay and don't leave me alone
Cause I don't want this life without you
Now that I found you
In your arms, I want to die
Cause I don't want this life
Without you, without you

Can you forgive me
I'm not good with words
Every time you're in front of me
I can't breathe
And the heart stops
Oh my soul
Your happiness is my happiness
Your tear is my tear
It hurts me when you're hurt

I want to give you my eyes
So you can understand
Why my heart is beating for you
Why I love you
Now that I found you
In your arms, I want to die
Cause I don't want this life
Without you, without you

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkAD7mtjmmc

I kept my eyes closed, so that I couldn't see you leaving
I kept my head high, even though my feet were shaking
I tried to breathe deeply, and to calm my soul
And to let you leave, and to let you leave, and to let you leave

But if the hurting comes, it's welcome, so long as it comes faster
To conquer me - the sooner, the better - because I can't and don't want to
Waste all my days thinking about you

And if sometimes I can forget you
If sometimes I can, once again, open my heart
And have the sun shine
sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
If sometimes you long for my company
Know that the doors of my heart are open (for you)
I'm in the same place you left me that time
sometimes, sometimes

And the weight of love, I myself carried upon my shoulders
I never asked you for anything
And the road that you've chosen
Isn't one of love - you're never going to reach your destination
And if one day you remember me, I hope it's for good
Don't think of how I am (now)

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCqoIuL8YKI

Tight lips, shaking voice
The words are tight inside my throat
I couldn't believe me (the) poor
That for every beginning there is an end
And waited,and planted
A seed that would never be planted
defeated, I witnessed her freedom (seeds freedom)

There is no second that my breathing isn't stopped
There is no minute that I don't want to die
There is no hour that I feel nostalgic
There is no day that I give up waiting
And there is no night that my dream isn't taken
There is no week that my consciousness isn't killing me
There is no month, there is no season
There is no year, century, LIFE

My thoughts escape
In places that I never stepped (never went/walked into)
(my) heart like a clock (the item) is stacked
And stops every time you're not here
I am tired of myself
I am tired of this f2CKING agony
I am withered from thirst, for her eyes

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRNGcH8n7aU

It's difficult to be free
When your heart is chained
I know, I know who is speaking, he who once had the world at his feet
And now he misses you, and now you're bothering him, only you

There's no yesterday,there's no today, there's no tomorrow
Why am I understanding it this late?
That without you I'm neither in the sky, neither in the ground, neither in the dreams
Why did this pride blinded me? When all I wanted it was you, but you still don't know it

I have no voice anymore, I have no tears
But belive me, everything without you looks in vain
I know who is speaking, he who gave you pain and solitude
And now you're hurting him, now he misses you without limits

There's no yesterday, there's no today, there's no tomorrow
Why am I understanding it this late?
That without you I'm neither in the sky, neither in the ground, neither in the dreams
Why did this pride blind me? When all I wanted it was you, but you still don't know it

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6BzRYVD-a8

The sky sheds its light over the city
while the soul leaves the body in solitude
This distant voice once again leaves me uneasy
posing a million questions to the scene.

Oh how fearful it is to think of my life as only a drop in the water
no, it can’t be solely by chance, the pain that a mother feels when her kid is suffering
no, it can’t be solely poetry when the heart shivers in the presence of love
no, it can’t be solely irony when living amongst millions of injustices.

As a new life is born, a new universe is formed
as another one fades in the immortal foreverness
sadness surrounds when believing that all we are, are passengers of time.

No, it can’t be solely by chance, the pain that a mother feels when her kid is suffering
no, it can’t be solely poetry when your heart shivers in the presence of love
no, it can’t be solely irony when living amongst millions of injustices.

As much as it scares me, it also leaves me speechless
at the end, this mystery is not only a tale
as I am still alive.

No, they can’t be solely history, the ones that gave their lives in the fight against slavery
no, it can’t be solely fantasy, the power of a dream which knows neither time nor boundaries
no, it can’t be solely a miracle, to pave your future for a life in continuation
perhaps we are one, perhaps we are energy, derived from the same pain and the same happiness
forever human.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv7Qhid8PhE

(dedicated to sexually abused women during the last war in Kosovo)

Who am I?
A hopeless body, yet still in motion
It is I, who am I?
A soul in oblivion, a life in recollection
Suppressed, crestfallen,
tired, defeated I stand
Is it I?Is it I? Is it I?

Silence tears me up, yet silence keeps me going
Cause it is the only life I have got
And silence hurts, wrecks me daily
Yet remains the only friend I can get
To talk to, and what can I say
Other than, I am in pain, so much pain

This is not I, my mirth long forgotten
And the day is over, no, no, no
It is no longer I, an endless darkness
And a roaring silence
Suppressed, crestfallen,
tired, defeated I stand
Is it I?Is it I? Is it I?

Silence tears me up, yet silence keeps me going
Cause it is the only life I have got
And silence hurts, wrecks me daily
Yet remains the only friend I can get
To talk to, and what can I say

Listen, you listen to me
I shall step forward, return to life
Now, you listen to me
I shall find some strength to break the silence
Now!

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb3XJ0CO7F0

(in post-war Kosova, apart from all the socio-economical problems that resulted from the conflict, the issue of the missing persons still touches the lives of many families. The fate of thousands of people still remains unknown. Reflecting this issue, Koperativa designed and produced Eliza Hoxhas music video, featuring short stories of nostalgia, vanishing memories and loneliness)

So many letters i write, but i don't have an address where i can send them
So many days passed, so many tears that don't have an end
Are you alive or death? I don't know anything
But in my heart, you still breathe (you are still alive)
So many prayers, now i pray too
For them that there aren't anymore
This song is also a testimony
cause i can't do more

I don't ask anything, only that this pain to goes away
I'm so tired to wait, but i can't quit
I want at last to know where are you buried
The pain will always remain with me
but at last, i will be free

Nothing make sense anymore
nor this waiting that broke me
The pain don't go away
even with the lyric of this song
I refuse to think that you don't exist anymore
but how can i belive it, when i'm hostage of this pain
You taken everything from me,
and now i want, at last a thing from you
I'm lost in this world
with hope that you will come back
with all the others, i really believe it

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWBrmDMC-A

Until the pain
Slaughters this silence
And I fly
Fly beyond the clouds
With thousands of nights and days
The truth repeats over and over again
Until the soul cries
When I remember the song
That has been taken away from me

I hug you in my garden
I hear your voice again
I kiss your eyes
I can imagine this pleasure

Until the pain
Pierces this solitude
I wait to meet you
I go beyond the mountain for you
I miss you, I cry like a child for you
I don't even want to know the truth
Until the soul aches
When I remember the dream
That we saw together

Now the garden is no more
The leaves have not fallen
The flowers are saying
That you are no more

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThccWxY184


Your smile and your voice come to me by wind
Your eyesight and your lips get enlightened to me by spring
You walk slow around sky like a fairy
I hear your name in the wind, i think i see you

Something that gets broken
and when it get sticked again is noted
They say "wine speaks the truth"
people usualy express themselves when they are drunk
Tomorrow when i open my door all problems will come back
and you walk away like a dream, and i follow you with the wind
With hope that i will touch you, i try again and again
but in vain this time because no one says a good thing for us
As long as we were happy people's mouth never stopped
and now we go around lost like it never had a value
Damn how much i miss you
i want to kiss your forehead
I beg you to come back
i wanna be with you from the first to the last second
Forget gold, royal and luxurious life
it's surreal, like you, my fairy
No apology , after break up tears fall and drain
this decision making gives me strength to accept fault
I want to win the weight, because i can't anymore feel the arm holding it
when you will hear my voice, i know, you are gonna cry

Your smile and your voice come to me by wind
Your eyesight and your lips get enlightened to me by spring
You walk slow around sky like a fairy
I hear your name in the wind, i think i see you

The lost is bitterly when 2 related persons break up
at the end i know a breakup come like silence without sounds
And im convinced that perfect we are not born
but to improve and feel, not without reasons
Now it's fashion: "lets break up" , or whatever
a not important conversation, i'm drinking a lot
I know that you are far but i can hear you a lot
loneliness is eating me inside when i know that you ain't mine
Wounds at the end will be cured and what's left will be just scars
Fire, my heart is getting fire
just like shingle, alive or dead we end
Like a fairytale with angels and demons, the situation is really bad
I can't take on my self to face the truth
memories get lost, these i have decided to keep em on the papers
My heart is frozen, it's getting colder and i'm thirsty
when i see your silhouette, i get my smile back

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3dAcrSfDLE

How much I'm yearning
for an old song
for the sounds of Kavall (an instrument similiar to flute)
(how much I'm yearning)
to sing for love as an old lover
and to hear words of Truth

On high levels
men are singing
Your name they are mentioning (remembering)
In this world
poors are Your lovers
Make a space for them near You

The faces are shining like the moon during night
The light made the heart white
to us give light
May I incline to this Mercy, oh seed of love
Oh God make this heart of mine
a place of bliss

The morning came and it was empty
the lovers went away
they left us alone
Come tonight
oh brother
let us stay together
for the sake of Love let us dine
let us talk until the morning comes
since, those who from the world want to get away
with the name of the Truth, they become lovers

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Bdnu0vqcA

How much I wanted
to hold you close
to bring you up
when you fell on your knees
to not let them laugh at you
but I overdid it
I couldn't

If I die young
Don't bring me flowers
and at the announcement
don't put my picture
If I die young
Let them know it's your honor
cause even without bullets, without knifes
people can be killed

How do you feel?
You don't have anyone to talk
You don't have me beside
You are not strong
Just write it in my grave
"she was tired and couldn't anymore'

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrrgE435ubQ

I feel like a stranger inside of my skin
We were at the begining but we touched the end, sweetheart
I am emptied today, like a blind soul
I am hurt and asking, is it my fault?
You were inspiration, now pain
I have no strength to get up

Do you have a heart?
Are you a man?
You are just a name
Cold like a stone
Do you have a heart?
To accept your mistakes
You are just a name
Without letters, just empty
Do you have a heart?
No you do not
You are just a name
You don't see it
Do you have a heart?
Do you have a heart?
Do you?

Have you forgotten? You swore before God
You are the one who broke my trust
You return like autumn
I always fall
You call while drunk saying "i miss you"
Maybe now you are suffering like me
But I doubt it

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGNnax97hGI


I came, you thought I was lying
I came even though you were not waiting
I am worth it, but you denied my value
If you knew it, you would be here today

And little by little this soul is dying
Drunk in thoughts I wait for you
And little by little I weaken
For you to love me a little more

Escaping, my days pass
I remain the same as yesterday
I am worth it, but you denied my value
If you knew it, you would be here today

And little by little this soul is dying
Drunk in thoughts I wait for you
And little by little I weaken
For you to love me a little more

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeETTVXySrQ

I had fun
and I thought that you loved me
I went crazy for you
You've become a memory
I'm withered away now
My soul will remain empty

Like me, like me
your heart will stop working
You'll never know love again
you too

I remind myself
I used to come to you like a mad woman
I was breathless, my body shivered
I know it
You will remain a memory
that is both bitter and sweet
one that I both hated and loved with my whole soul

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTULrBgM9WA

Do you miss my breath
like I miss yours?
I am repeating myself
Do you miss my face
like I miss your face?
And I am repeating myself

They won't see us together
You won't see me again
My soul knows it and It is bursting
You won't see me again
They won't see us together
You won't see me again
My soul knows it and It is bursting
You won't see me again

I repeated myself again
I would search for someone like you
And even if I know there is not anyone like you
I will act as I forgot it
Broken knees, I kept walking
I am repeating myself

They won't see us together
You won't see me again
My soul knows it and It is bursting
You won't see me again
They won't see us together
You won't see me again
My soul knows it and It is bursting
You won't see me again

You have my eternal gratitude
i learned to feel like you
I have lived, felt the love from head to toes
My soul (is) ice today
Since I can't have you

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRqDczgS8Gs


That bullet that on your wedding
was shot for joy*
should rather have killed me
to not let me suffer

I hate the sunday
not because the week ends
but because I separated
from you forever
I hate drums*
I don't like weddings
I don't like gold either
which makes rings.

It would have been better if I hadn't been alive
sunday night.
It would have been better for me*,
if monday hadn't come.


*On some Albanian weddings it's a tradition to shoot 3 times (or more) in the air with a gun
*On some Albanian weddings it's a tradition to play folk music with an instrument similar to drums
*In the song he literally says "It is better for me", stressing the present situation for him

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbMbCnAkq2o


(dedicated to his deceased wife)

When the Lord decided
for you to passed away
I don't know how my hands
putted earth on you
(i don't know how i had the force
to watch your burying)

Almost half century with you
now it's all only a memory
In every face i search you
you, an important piece of my heart

Remembering your eyes
i'm burning these mine
When the summer come
to lightning everything
I can't enjoy its shadows
without you
(i can't feel its touch
if you aren't here)

When the Lord decided
for you to leave this life
How lightning breaks the sky
like that my heart was broken
During family celebrations
your soul is always here
For me, and the kids
you will always remain young
(you will always be beautiful for ours eyes)

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3A7-i85G5U

Near the river she comes
blond hair, beautiful body
Like a magical bird
she washes her face and eyes

The water of the river increase
it flows like a beautiful fish
The drops seems like silver
All of this communicate something to my soul

Your heart and my soul
they are like old friends
When they see each other
the nostalgy starts to disapper
With you i find the "touch"
and i don't feels (anymore) the pain in my soul

Like a beautiful fairy
you come near the river
You, angel face and sky color eyes
and everything around you comes to life
The wind don't seems tired
it blows hard
The blond hair of the fairy(girl)
are beautifully moved back and forth

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvz1MwajUXA

You, the blessed Land
stay in awaiting of Skanderbeg
He is coming like a "liberator"
to save the Motherland
To give freedom to Albanian people
and to enjoy this life with them
The freedom for all the humankind

The plains and mountains are lighteting
by the weapons of the braveheart warriors
The horses race shakes the soil of the Albanian lands
There were Albanian braveheart warriors
who weren't afraid of anything
There is fire in his heart (in Skanderbeg's heart)
he is a real man, a real braveheart warrior

Stay in awaiting of Skanderbeg

And all of you (braveheart) that perished in battlefield
come and enjoy with us
You who died with a smile on your face
may your soul remain in peace
The night goes away and came the light
From love, friendship and kindness
By the most important of all, Liberty

Stay in awaiting of Skanderbeg

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7PutClfDs


I'm Albanian, Kosovar
and proud
Upon this soil (this Land)
that is for me like Religion
Motherland, Fatherland

I were here when there weren't any else
any border or neighbours
I were here when from Montenegro up to Dalmatia
all was called Illiria
I were here when God created land
mountain and sea
I were here when from a sea to other sea
i were "the owner"
I were here and i will be here
autochthonous
Till the mountains will become dust
and the dust into mountain again

I'm Albanian, Kosovar
and generous (hospitable)
Full of fury
that goes back into centuries
all for the Liberty
White hat owner (traditional Albanian hat)
bound with three scarf, for the bravery
With limpid eyes, filled of fire

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbT7vGutzHs



(Dedicated to Anton Çeta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_%C3%87eta

He contributed to reduce the "blood feuds" in Kosovo)

Anton Ceta esclames with sadness:
her (Kosovo) is suffering
History has leave big injustices
a grave for every house (family)

Dark nights for 500 years
kids are afraid to grow up
(because adults are subject of "blood feuds", kids not)
Grass grows up around houses
(people can't cure their gardens because they can't leave their houses, only in the house they are safe from "blood feuds")
Kids drinks (absorb) more tears (pain) than milk (food) itself

From Lume Bardhi (a village in Kosovo) they (braveheart men) start coming
they are guided by uncle Anton
They call toward Llapi and Rugova (Kosovo regions): we will extinguish the debt with Kosovo
(we will make Kosovo more beautiful, cancelling the animosity amongst ourselves)

We grew up together
the flour of our bread was made in the same mill
(it's a says which mean "we are the same")
Everyone of us is born by a mother
who will suffer for his child
(the pain of every mother is the same)
She cuddled me (in the same way yours had cuddle you)
(the love of every mother is the same)

A real man will forgive you
(a real man knows the importance of forgiveness)
A real Albanian forgives you
not because he is afraid (but because this is what a real man should do)

And now whole Kosovo is asking:
who are they that don't quited "the blood feuds"?
Those who don't quited the "blood feuds"
those have backstabbed me (with their "non forgivenesses")

"I offer you the blood of my son (I'll forgive you for my killed son)"
"I salute you man, may the honor stand with you (Well done man, bless you)"

Those who don't quited the "blood feuds"
those have backstabbed me (with their "non forgivenesses")

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcjyk9zFHJ8

Kosovo
you, filled with strong braveheart warriors
500 years of wars with the Sultans
500 years of darkness and pain
In war with Turks and Serbs
this land is washed by blood

Take away from my land your tanks and weapons
Don't came uninvited in my house
Don't touch my cradles (stay away from my kids)
Don't joke with my tolerance
if i lose it and start to fight
i will turn your Serbia in a "living grave"

You can hear the pain of this land
The dead ones (the heroes)
want to came into life and kill the Sultan
They want to come into life
and bring with them the freedom

Whole Kosovo will be washed with our blood
but we never will turn into Serbs
(all of us will die, choking into our own blood
but never an Albanian will choose to become a Serb)

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyRsr0PHpeU


With the will of the almighty God
The light of the Albanianism was born
It’s lighting up and it doesn't has an end
From today to eternity
In the heart of the youngest ones
(it's carred in the heart of the new generation)

You (the young ones), stand up for Liberty
stand up for Albanianism
Weapons in your hands
and hearts filled with fire
Filled with fire for the Albanianism
Burn (you) heart of the young ones

The sky full of Albanian eagles
the mountains full of dragons
Such fertile plains
sea filled with so much life
See, these are our Lands

Here the eagles (Albanians) were the first residents
Balkan "pronounced" his first word
And they (the ancestors) left us as inheritance:
Honor, Besa* and Bravery
This is the heart of an Albanian

Give each other your Besa*
you with the same blood of Kastrioti (Skanderbeg)
Give it and swear
before Nation, before God

You, the young ones
may you were born for Liberty
You, the young ones
with the same force as an earthquake
For Liberty and Albanianism
may you live as long as "sea waves" (long life to you)

*Besa is a cultural precept, usually translated as faith, that means to keep the promise. The man of Besa connotes a man of respect and honour, someone to whom you can trust your life

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqwxe50BsAg

(from the poetry of Naim Frashëri 1846-1900)

Here among you have I risen
And aflame am I now blazing
Just a bit of light to give you
That I change your night to daytime
I'll combust and I will wither
Be consumed and be extinguished
Just to give you brightness, vision
That you notice one another
For you will I fade and tarnish
Of me there will be no remnant
I will burn, in tears lamenting
My desire I cannot suffer
Of the fire I am not fearful
I will never be extinguished
If I burn of my desire
Try to shine as best I'm able
When you see that I have vanished
Do not think that I have perished
I'm alive, among the living
In the rays of truth I'm standing
In your souls do I take refuge
Do not think I'm stranger to you
Patience was bestowed upon me
Thus I glow with steadfast courage
Doing good is all I long for
That you not remain in darkness
Forward now and gather 'round me
Talk, smile, eat, drink and make merry
Love within my soul is harboured
Yes, for mankind am I burning
Let me melt and let me smoulder
To grow cold I do not wish for
Let my wretched corpse be consumed
For our true God the Almighty
May my lungs scorch, charred to ashes
For mankind I'll melt and vanish
With me all man's joys I'll carry
Bear them to the Lord Almighty
Humanity is what I long for
Goodness, gentleness and wisdom
If you'll with me be companions?
If you'll love me as I love you
If you all love one another
Work not for the Prince of Darkness
Venture towards me, fleeting heart, do
Come, approach this fire a little!
Though the flame may singe your wings
it's sure to sanctify your spirit
With the torch that here consumes me
I the eyes of men have opened
Been of them a true companion
I do know them, they do know me
I've observed them all in passing
Mothers, kith and kin, and fathers
All of them are my concern still
All who lived here on this planet
Even now I see them 'mongst you
For I recognize their spirits
I, like you, have changed, transfigured
Changed and altered my companions
Many times have I turned into
Earth and wind and fire and water
I'm a spark come from the heavens
From the sun I'm glowing embers
Through the skies I fly, a-soaring
And live deep within the ocean
Often in the soil I sleep or
Take my rest in fruits and honey
I'm a suckling lamb or kid goat
Flower, grass or leaves a-sprouting
So much do I have to tell you
Yet I fear my speech will fail me
What's the point to put to paper
Words this flickering tongue's inspired?

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYKFni0vkJg

(from the poetry of Migjeni 1911-1938)

Poverty, brothers, is a mouthful that's hard to swallow,
A bite that sticks in your throat and leaves you in sorrow,
When you watch the pale faces and rheumy eyes
Observing you like ghosts and holding out thin hands;
Behind you they lie, stretched out
Their whole lives through, until the moment of death.
Above them in the air, as if in disdain,
Crosses and stony minarets pierce the sky,
Prophets and saints in many colours radiate splendour.
And poverty feels betrayed.

Poverty carries its own vile imprint,
It is hideous, repulsive, disgusting.
The brow that bears it, the eyes that express it,
The lips that try in vain to hide it
Are the offspring of ignorance, the victims of disdain,
The filthy scraps flung from the table
At which for centuries
Some pitiless, insatiable dog has fed.
Poverty has no good fortune, only rags,
The tattered banners of a hope
Shattered by broken promises.

Poverty wallows in debauchery.
In dark corners, together with dogs, rats, cats,
On mouldy, stinking, filthy mattresses,
Naked breasts exposed, sallow dirty bodies,
With feelings overwhelmed by bestial desire,
They bite, devour, suck, kiss the sullied lips,
And in unbridled lust the thirst is quenched,
The craving stilled, and self-consciousness lost.
Here is the source of the imbeciles, the servants and the beggars
Who will tomorrow be born to fill the streets.

Poverty shines in the eyes of the newborn,
Flickers like the pale flame of a candle
Under a ceiling blackened with smoke and spider webs,
Where human shadows tremble on damp stained walls,
Where the ailing infant wails like a banshee
To suck the dry breasts of its wretched mother
Who, pregnant again, curses god and the devil,
Curses the heavy burden of her unborn child.
Her baby does not laugh, it only wastes away,
Unwanted by its mother, who curses it, too.
How sorrowful is the cradle of the poor
Where a child is rocked with tears and sighs.

Poverty's child is raised in the shadows
Of great mansions, too high for imploring voices to reach
To disturb the peace and quiet of the lords
Sleeping in blissful beds beside their ladies.

Poverty matures a child before its time,
Teaches it to dodge the threatening fist,
The hand which clutches its throat in dreams,
When the delirium of starvation begins
And when death casts its shadow on childish faces,
Instead of a smile a hideous grimace.
While the fate of a fruit is to ripen and fall,
The child is interred not maturing at all.

Poverty labours and toils by day and night,
Chest and forehead drenched in sweat,
Up to the knees in mud and slime,
And still the empty guts writhe in hunger.
Starvation wages! For such a daily ordeal,
A mere three or four leks and an 'On your way.'

Poverty sometimes paints its face,
Swollen lips scarlet, hollow cheeks rouged,
And body a chattel in a filthy trade.
For service in bed for which it is paid
With a few lousy francs,
Stained sheets, stained face and stained conscience.

Poverty leaves a heritage as well,
Not cash in the bank or property you can sell,
But distorted bones and pains in the chest,
Perhaps leaves the memory of a bygone day
When the roof of the house, weakened by decay,
By age and the weather collapsed and fell,
And above all the din rose a terrible cry
Cursing and imploring, as from the depths of hell,
The voice of a man crushed by a beam.
Under the heel, says the priest, of a god irate
Ends thus the life of a dissolute ingrate.
And so the memory of such misfortunes
Fills the cup of bitterness passed to generations.

Poverty in drink seeks consolation,
In filthy taverns, with dirty, littered tables,
The thirsting soul pours glass after glass
Down the throat to forget its many worries,
The dulling glass, the glass satanic,
Caressing with a venomous bite.
And when, like grain under the scythe, the man falls
To the floor, he giggles and sobs, a tragicomic clown,
And all his sorrow in drink he drowns
When one by one, a hundred glasses downs.

Poverty sets desires ablaze like stars in the night
And turns them to ashes, like trees struck by lightning.

Poverty knows no joy, but only pain,
Pain reducing you to such despair
That you seize the rope and hang yourself,
Or become a poor victim of 'paragraphs.'

Poverty wants no pity, only justice!
Pity? Bastard daughter of cunning fathers,
Who like the Pharisees, beating the drum
Ostentatiously for their own sly ends,
Drop a penny in the beggar's hands.

Poverty is an indelible stain
On the brow of humanity through the ages.
And never can this stain be effaced
By doctrines decaying in temples.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzOS_Nbx07o

How strange the feeling in your soul
When love invades your very being
Another “me” or so I’m told
And life takes on another meaning.

Day after day, I go through the motions,
Stumbling my way, life is a blur
Slave of my love, of my emotions
You’re in my eyes, you’re in my heart

One kiss, one heartbeat, in time,
a kiss, the moment, is mine.
I close my eyes, I breathe
I’m Queen of the world of Make Believe!!

You make me feel, a little crazy
You make me see your tears are true
You make my days and nights so hazy,
You make me feel the image of you.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwIdP7ba0Wo

I know how hard is to love
I know how much pain brings a traitor
When you love with whole your heart
but you find only tears and pain

I don't want to die
without saying you again:
"that you are the only one who makes this soul alive"
It's better to be slave of solitude
than slave of "rejected love"
At least leaves my heart alone
don't mock it

I searched for you everywhere
Do you remember it now? Do you?
And i never want to see you again
Leave, please just go

I'm tired of my inner words
that i can't speak out
I have an inner world
"not lived" and full of pain

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GKIKwAHOuc

I didn't take my revenge
i never broke your heart
There is a rope (an imaginary one) on my throat
It tears apart my soul
I didn't' expect it, your betrayal
I sold out (given away) everything
everything, besides my soul
I believed you sincerely
but it isn't important anymore
Lord will take my revenge
no one can buy my soul

Go away, nothing will remain (about us)
Remember, only, to put a handful of earth on me when i will die
(remember to honour me in my last day on this life)
I didn't expect it from you
to broke me in this life
I believed you sincerely
but it isn't important anymore
Lord will take my revenge
no one can buy my soul

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNP8TyEniWU


Your blond hair and black eyes
I will always remember them
Magdalen' oh Magdalena
I will makes you mine
or i will die trying
Magdalen' oh Magdalena
I will always remember them
Magdalen' oh Magdalena
Because of you, i live in hope
Magdalen' oh Magdalena

In your neighbourhood
i can't walk there
Magdalen' oh Magdalena
I'm passing my days
watching your balcony from afar
with tears in my eyes
Magdalen' oh Magdalena
Because i can't live without you
Magdalen' oh Magdalena

In your balcony
flowers are raising
Magdalen' oh Magdalena
take one of them and send it to me
Magdalen' oh Magdalen
I love you now
and i will always love you
Magdalen oh Magdalena

.................................................. ............

Who will cold my burning passion?
Aman* Sabahe* eh
I loved you
and i will always love you
Aman Sabahe eh

Ah Aman Sabahe eh
Hey, how beautiful you are

Damn to this love
Aman Sabahe eh
I loved you
and i will always love you
Aman Sabahe eh

Ah, Aman Sabahe eh
Hey, how beautiful you are


* Aman is an expression remained here by Ottoman Empire. It's an exclamation of "distress", sometimes "amazement" (and many other emotions).
* Sabahe (and obviously Magdalena) are females name.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLL8CYjCBr4

For me, the flowers of May
aren't beautiful anymore
They died, while blooming
poor them
Light and cold
like the snow in January
This song of mine
speaks directly from heart

You abandoned (left) me
may my kisses will curse you
Because, far from me
your heart became a traitor
You'll regret it
but it will be late
And crying
you will remember our love

.......................................

Flower, you flower
i stealed you and
i planted you in my garden
Flower, you flower
you have filled my heart with so much love

Are you a night star?
Those eyes, those shining eyes
i can't forget them

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq-F2_dwSLM

I wanted only a hug
to touch your hands
your lips
My soul can't leave your body
(i can't separate my soul from you)
I didn't make any mistakes
but in the end i were left in pain (crying)

I can't forgive you
you took away your love from me
to give it to someone else
I can't forgive you
i gifted you my soul
now i have only tears

Tell me how to live with half heart
Why you didn't think before killing this love?
My soul can't leave your body
(i can't separate my soul from you)
I didn't make any mistakes
but in the end i were left in pain (crying)

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R04I-DurRCU


You came to live near me
You haven't changed much
since the day we left each other
I want to speak to you
but the words don't come out
How much i prayed
for you to come to me

This is much worse than dying
Looking at you from a distance
The two of us alone (single)
but so much far from each other

Walk slow, sweetheart
And stop, please stop
so i can watch you better
Walk slow, sweetheart
i can't forgive you, either myself
if this time we goes
"every one on his own way"

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG4EpC-rjto

Do you have any remorse, like me?
Is there something that I did not gave you?
Wherever you touched, you marked me
Whenever you talked, you marked me
Whenever you left me breathless

Do you see? Do you see?
Without any effort, You took my soul
And I ask you
Do you want more? Do you want more?

This love wasn't easy, not easy at all
Are you gonna stop anytime?
Whenever you steped the grass did not blossomed
You are a freaking selfish

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfTcXkEp3Q8

Sleep don’t come easy tonight
The moon alone keeps me company
I cry for you my lover, I do
Why don’t you come around no more ?
I don’t know what to do.

Can’t see you through these tears
Come, o, come to ease my soul.

My eyes wet with tears for you
don’t you ache for me the least ?
I beg you moon, please help me
find the man, I love so dearly

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4plVarzu0D0


It's been a year and half
Since we fell in love
My little sweetheart
And no one knew about us

That we fell in love
My little sweetheart
And no one knew about us

No one knew about it
But only you
My little sweetheart
And our souls

Only you and our souls
Since that day
When I put a ring
On your finger

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKc84jaY4GY

You had no pity, my love.
How did this happen?
I’m not expecting anything from you
just talk to me.

Why do you have a grudge against me?
Life can’t be spent in anger.
Talk to me once, black eyed one
don’t be afraid to sin.

You had a heart of stone, my love.
How did you endure all this?
I’ve promised I won’t love another
besides the Rose of Elbasan.

When they told me you were mournful
they would better have killed me.
Even if they take me away from Elbasan
I’ll never give up on this love.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNo_Lq8TEbY

When you start to have something with someone
you close one eyes
When you are in love with someone
you close both eyes
I don't know how i started loving someone like you

They say that the time heal every wound
but my heart, even today, is filled with fire (pain)
I'm not leaving you immediately
i will leave you little by little

I will become like you
nothing will bother me
I will live without love
i'm learned it from you

This city is small
i know, in every street
you will hear my voice
This city is small
but you were never bothered
that I will learn about your actions
(what you have done)
And in the end
I wish you a life of solitude

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0HZTojjNV8

Moon and sun, lights this Land
Kosovo (Motherland) , where i was born
I drank the water of this Land
mixed with the tears (pain) of my mother

Mother cradled me
she sang to me some lullabies
"son, i wish you to have a fortunate life"
She had leave near me "rifle" and "sword"
He cuddled my hand and face
she covered me with the flag
The flag with double-headed eagle
with that, the Albanian mother put me to sleep
"son, if you aren't ready to die for this land
you died today and you will never rise again"

I growed up, strong like stones
I received the light from the flag
How to gain the Liberty
army taught me that
How to spill my blood (for the Liberty)
that was taught to me by my grandpa

Grandson listen:
"Don't be afraid to die for this Land
Look at my "forehead wrinkles",
you will know all the roads of the mountains
Never abandon Plisi (the traditional Albanian hat)
and if someone try to enslave you and take away your rights
even if you don't have weapons to fight them, use your teeth, bite them"

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okgf3POeLO8

How could you let me live in a dream
How could you let me blind to search
Give me only one memory
One blitz from you eyes like condolence
The days passes by with your image
I draw you in every face that I see
Forgive me, forgive me for real
I live like a fool a half life

And I refuse to make up my mind
Tears burn like fire but I can't cry
Why I cannot find you, why I cannot find you
I challenge the universe further more
I search but I can't find you, I can't find you

I have send my heart here and there
I keep the stars on just for you
For you is a small thing for you
This world has no meaning without us

And I refuse to make up my mind
Tears burn like fire but I can't cry
Why I cannot find you, why I cannot find you
I challenge the universe further more
I search but I can't find you, I can't find you

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQES6P4I0jI


Majk:
I swear on my life
All the time with you I was being sincere
I swear on my life
I didn't know how to lie, I told you the truth
I swear on my life
Often I loved you more than myself
I swear on my life
with you, no one else existed for me

Majk:
I even changed my phone number
I even left my friends aside for you
I did everything for you
I came out of mysel
because I wasn't interested that much in any other one
I trusted you and gave you freedom
You used me, you only used this oppurtunity

Capital T:
I know that now you
are only looking for a way to turn back time
By how much this boy loved you
I can't forgive your mistakes
So much I have to say
that I don't know where to start
A women like you davaluetes beauty
I gave you my world but that wasn't enough for you
but I don't blame you for what you are


Capital T:
You were everything for me
and now you're just 1 ex, nothing more
You were everything for me
and now you're just 1 bitch, nothing more
nothing more than memories
nothing more than love I gave you
unlimited good things and you returned treason
without feelings, feelings, it's like having ice in my venes
without them I don't return no I don't return
leave these topics, leave these tricks, leave these sceneries
We have no time to lose
You don't have to think about me anymore
You don't have to speak to me anymore
You thought that I don't hear and see
You were everything for me
and now you're just 1 ex, nothing more
You were everything for me
and now you're just 1 bitch, nothing more

[Alboz]

https://vimeo.com/324751441

As long as i live
i will be longing for you
This soul will love you
even if we won't talk anymore

During the day
i have fun with friends
(i get distracted)
so i don't have to think about you
But damn it
during the night, your face "hunts" me

Damn to this world
why can't people
who love each other be together?
You don't leave my heart
(i can't stop loving you)
but you aren't "my destiny"

.................................................. .........

For the first time
i started to love someone
And i'm passing the days, thinking
I'm afraid that i made some mistakes
Tell me boy
why are you mad to me?

Why i didn't think more
when i started our love
I lost myself
in the prime of life

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yddX5MB9vig

I'm in love with someone
Someone who
Is really troubling me
I'm in love with someone
Who doesn't believe
That love exists

I'm in love with someone
Someone who thinks
That nobody loves him
I'm in love with someone
He can't recognize
someone's love

Before I run far away
I wanna tell you that you were very close
Before I run far away
Your heart in my hand I take, I take

I'm drunk, can't stand on my feet, a love is troubling me

Shots & Tequila, beer works too
To get rid of the 'bad
' you just combo
Some Bob Marley would be nice too
So when I roll
I don't even stop at a patrol anymore
oh ra pam pa pam
The beat is so fine
And the wine is kicking in too
Even if there is no love
At least there's plenty of raki* to drink

Doesn't matter what you gonna say about me

Now, every night I drink raki and wine
'night drink raki and wine
It might be harmful for someone
but for me it's comforting
'night drink raki and wine
and you, shut up, shut up

* Raki is an alcoholic drink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rak%C4%B1

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vhAoXh-bhw

I gave you my eyes
Why you didn't came in our usually spot?
Damn to you girl

I gave you Besa*
And my tears, as a gift

I waited for you, girl, all night
Why you didn't came in our usually spot?
May you be cursed

I gave you Besa
And my tears, as a gift

*Besa is a cultural precept, usually translated as faith, that means to keep the promise. The man of Besa connotes a man of respect and honour, someone to whom you can trust your life

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUQRFr7FM9w

In the morning
when the sun hasn't shown yet its light
a voice awake me and i got up
The beautiful girl goes somewhere
It's always the same girl

Wait girl, wait
wait, i want to came with you
Wait for me girl, wait
cuz i'm in love with you

It's two days, that i'm waiting for you, boy
Two days, for you to come so we could "gather hazlenuts"(together)

You have to believe me, girl
Let me tell you of what happened to me last night
the sheep got scared and escaped
i travelled all of the mountain by foot (walking by myself)

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeSAsmRuxd8

The house is shaking
You, the "first of the house" (the owner of the house, generally "the father")
May you get blessed
How beautiful you started it dancing while drinking the "first glass of alcohol"

There is a big wedding here, today
All our friend and our familes are here, enjoying it
May the new couple have a long life together

Who started the dance now?
The mother and the father
How much joy, aman*, shows the brother and the sister

.................................................. ........

Get up uncle (mother side) and dance
you make happy everyone with your "dancing skills"
Foots after foots, uncle it's dancing, with other nine people

Uncle (father side), mashalla **
this dance is made only for you
With that glass of raki in your hands
you seem like you are again "a young man"

Get up you aunts (father and mother side)
you should be the first to start this dance
This southern traditional dance
all of us will start dancing it

.........................................

May the groom have a long life
for he, the music, today, won't stop
Beautiful bride, like a fairy
she shakes the "dance" with her beauty

May the clarinet*** won't stop today
So the young boys and girls (who are single)
can enjoy this dance

*Aman is an expression remained here by Ottoman Empire. It's an exclamation of "distress", sometimes "amazement" (and many other emotions).

**Mashallah is an Arabic phrase used to express appreciation, joy, praise, or thankfulness for an event or person that was just mentioned. The phrase has also found its way into the colloquial language of many non-Arab Muslims.

***Clarinet is a musical instrument.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFTO0H61hao


From the poetry of Sejfullah Maleshova (1901 - 1971)

How I Love Albania

I've no farm estates or manors,
I've no shops or lofty buildings,
Yet I love my land, Albania -
For a barn in Trebeshina,
For its boulders and its brushwood,
For a hut above Selishta,
For two fields ploughed in Zallishta,
For a cow and for a donkey,
For an ox, a little lambkin,
This is how I love my country
Like a shepherd, like a peasant.

Yes, I love my land, Albania,
For the clover in its meadows,
For a quick and agile maiden,
For its spring of water gurgling
From the cliffs and flowing swiftly
Through the leafy oak tree forests,
Tumbling down to form a river,
Yes, I love my land, Albania,
For the fenugreek in blossom,
For the birds that fly above it,
For the nightingales a-singing,
In the shade and in the brambles,
Trilling songs of love and longing,
This is how I love my country,
Like a poet in devotion.

Yes, I love my land, Albania,
Right from Korça to Vranina,
Where the farmer sets off early
With his hoe and plough a-toiling,
Sows and reaps by sun and moonlight,
Yet, he has no food to live on,
Where the farrier and saddler
Day and night stoop o'er their duties
Just to get a few stale breadcrumbs,
Where the porter at the dockyards,
Laden down with iron and barrels,
Bears his load, barefoot and ragged,
Always serving other people.
Yes, I love my land, Albania,
Right from Skopje to Janina,
Where its people in misfortune
Suffer, live their lives in serfdom,
Yet they have a fighting spirit -
This is how I love my country,
Like a revolutionary.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwcrwxHZOAA

From the poetry of Fan Noli (1882-1965)

(Elegy written in Berlin on the death of writer and political figure Luigj Gurakuqi, 1879-1925, who had been assassinated in Bari on 2 March 1925 by an agent of Ahmet Zogu.)

Dead in exile

Oh mother, mourn our brother,
Cut down by three bullets.
They mocked him, they murdered him,
They called him traitor.

For he loved you when they hated you,
For he wept when they derided you,
For he clothed you when they denuded you,
Oh mother, he died a martyr.

Oh mother, weep bitter tears,
Thugs have slain your son
Who with Ismail Qemali
Raised the valiant standard.

Oh mother, weep for him in Vlora,
Where he bore you freedom,
A soul as pure as snow,
For whom you have no grave.

Oh mother, he did his utmost
With eloquence and heart of iron,
Alive in exile, dead in exile,
This towering liberator.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH93RWMal0Q

[Kënga e Çelo Mezanit, translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie.]

The sun arose in Malavire,
Çelo came out in Harile,
Çelo came out in Harile,
Out to offer his condolence,
Out to offer his condolence,

Near the well of Sulejmani
They awaited Çelo Mezani.

When the rifle rang the first time,
Çelo turned and looked around him,
Çelo turned and looked around him.

When the rifle rang the second time,
Çelo folded, closed his eyelids,
Çelo folded, closed his eyelids.

When the rifle rang the third time,
Çelo then was truly slaughtered,
Çelo then was truly slaughtered.

Off they went to tell his mother
That her son had now been slaughtered,
That her son had now been slaughtered.

“Do not utter these words to me,
For my Çelo is still living,
For my Çelo is still living.”

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuQ4DWHJNJo

[Janinës ç’i panë sytë, translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie.]

What was it Janina’s eyes saw?
Ja-a, Janinë-o!
On a Friday did it happen,
Ja-a, Janinë-o!
At the five wells in the canyon,
Ja-a, Janinë-o!
Zenel Çelo and another,
Ja-a, Janinë-o!
Zenel with that Velça fellow,
Ja-a, Janinë-o!
And the hero Jaçe Mavro,
Ja-a, Janinë-o!
How he rose in daring venture,
Ja-a, Janinë-o!
Cleaved the enemy’s battalions,
Ja-a, Janinë-o!
And did slaughter the young pasha,
Ja-a, Janinë-o!

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s8pMXrNDtY

Here we are, in our Lands
Nobody can divide us
The eagle is flying
Our Land is calling
the oaks and mountains too
Because we are one Nation
Ethnic Albania

I am red and black, red and black
Me and you are red and black
Our hearts are with you
You, the most beautiful flag in this world

I feel a force (in my blood)
(a force) that never goes away
We are, yes we are
Ethnic Albania
Our Land is calling
the oaks and mountains too
Because we are one Nation
Ethnic Albania

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD7MA1gLdLo

You burn in my heart, precious little thing
(you are always in my memory/dreams)
I didn't feel this type of pain, ever
(never in my life i have feel so much pain)
We used to talk with so much conviction about our dreams
that even this cursed life has become enjoyable
Forgive me, if I can't forget you
you are a wound in my heart
I'm longing to meet you
until then, there will be no healing for my soul

I feel like crying
so much that even the heaven/sky will hear my pain
so much that even God, God, God, will wakes up
Who can i blame?Damn to this world / life
This half (soul) doesn't get full without you

I'm waiting for your calling
it seems early to leaves each others
How can i conserve your image in my head and heart
when the only thing i want is to hug and kiss you
as if "there were no tomorrow"
Why you didn't wait for me?
So many unspoken words have remained between us
Where are you now? Where are our dreams?
Why did they lost their shine (like this moon)?

I feel like crying
so much that even the heaven/sky will hear my pain
so much that even God, God, God, will wakes up
Who can i blame?Damn to this world / life
This half (soul) doesn't get full without you

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIsRmVAfyrc

And now I'm opening the page
the page of the new chapter
The one that I'm starting with you
I live for you
and our old memory
our life's picture
the one that I have with you
I'll write it in there

'cause I'll be for you , I'll be there
'cause I'll be for you , I'll be there
forever
I'm yours

'cause you have the key of my heart
you have the key of my heart
I'd miss you even if I would never
meet you


'cause you're my breath
your name talks through my veins
look me in my eyes
I'd give the world for you

'cause I'll be for you , I'll be there
'cause I'll be for you , I'll be there
forever
I'm yours


I'll shout with you
maybe I'll scream at you
we'll get very upset
I know there will be tears
I know they'll be worthless
I swear in front of you today

I won't talk to you
maybe a day or two
our feeling can overcome everything

I swear today
I'm yours

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk8HFF9pFC4


I don't want another one
just you
Only you are my heart
and my soul
You have my life
You gave a meaning to my life
and we can't be without each other

Because you're there for me
for me, for me
You're every feeling for me
and you'll find me always beside you
It's enough just to love me
And no matter how many times you'll ask me
I'll say the same thing everytime

Love me, love me, love me, love me

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf2wDRnADBA

An ocean of tears in eyes
A life of dreams
A life with you
My heart asks me where are you
No, I don't know it

Maybe you're alone
Maybe you're cold
Maybe the memories are keeping you warm

What do you do when you are sad?
When you miss someone?
When you close your eyes, do you see me?

Tell me, why you didn't trust my hands?
Why you didn't let them holds your heart?
Tell me, why you didn't kept your promises?
This love, you left it miserably

Only a memory will remain
a pain hidden in your soul
An ocean separates us now
No, I don't know where are you

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxorZ0tLWZg

The love is a knife with 2 ks, I know it because I sharpened it
What I felt I told you, I never counted your mistakes
She was overjoyed when I returned, I like her even when she is angry
She kills for me, I call her CATALEYA
The stories fell short, we happened to see each other in February
This cutie was dressed in short clothes, I was surely dead
I was sweating like in August, I was in a tight situation
My attention was in my fist, and my heart in coals
Come closer, don't make a fuss
I talk to you sweetly, you cut off my words with a machete
I will wait for you just tell me the date, I am ready just tell me when
Dump your friends, let us both go and spend the night
Surely half of them are still jealous of me
And not because i'm a rapper, but only because of the size
Because I don't like their size, as opposed to you shawty
I see you like a form of art

I will write you the song - Love
Walk in this heart of mine that you entered
Don't forget me, I beg you again
I can't live without you

You are a piece of Louvre art, the others wipe off your dust
When we are together, even the Colosseum is not enough
I wake up from smelling your parfume on me
Like the speed of a bullet you kill me with the softness of a dove
I drink for you, hold me and don't always give me the fault
We hold each-other, all we have we share
And those who offend us we kill them with our smiles
Bitch please! Damn she's hot and I got her on her knees
The nicest ass, I call her a masterpiece
She drank away my mind, I am going crazy
Baby how you shake it, I feel you a lot
The ass in every direction, you tied both my legs
I want to have you and I want to keep it real
Can you feel me?

I will write you the song - Love
Walk in this heart of mine that you entered
Don't forget me, I beg you again
I can't live without you

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsKfE4PpPIk

Do you know how much I loved you?
And you killed my heart/soul
Why did you made me suffer
when I gave you all myself?

I loved you my whole life
but you didn't tell me the truth
What have I done to you, love?
Don't forget the truth
Now only the words will remain
Better if we stay alone

How much I loved you
only my tears knows the whole truth

Hold yourself
You have only the memories now
When we used to love each other unconditionally

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5uY6FriOMg

Majk:

Bella, oh Bella
how much I dreamt about you
with a veil oh Bella
want to take you
You with a white veil
how much I have dreamt about you
For a moment we broke up
since then we never saw each other
and the dreams were left in incomplete

Ah, how much I feel angry
this destiny wanted us to be apart
i never was able to make peace with you
I left and let you with tears in your eyes
and the heart mourns
even if my eyes don't tears for you
The person I loved the most till yesterday
today I don't recognise her

Oh how pity, how pity
so much pity for this love

Butrint:

I don't want to blame you
but you don't leave me with the blame (don't blame me)
I am sorry if I haven't understand all your desires
We aren't together anymore, so good luck to you
And these sins I hope are cleaned from me by the rain
only for you, I burn all these roses

Oh nanana how many mistakes
Oh nanana sweetheart

Oh how pity, how pity
so much pity for this love

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHtXd_ntUKA

My tears have dried
My lips have become grave
The sun doesn't keep me warm
The sun doesn't keep me warm

Pain as big as a mountain
My heart doesn't forgive me
I don't see you anymore
I don't recognize you anymore

Curse this month
That has left me forever alone
November has taken my first love away
I don't want this month in the calendar anymore
November has taken me
This fire has also died
November...

We were full of fire
The months in the calendar
When we were together
As long as we were together

I cried from happiness
After you, crazed
I told them all
The both of us told them..

November, November, November
It ruined the best year
It left an agonizing mark
This poor month, took everything of mine
Let it go to hell
Let it go to hell
November, November

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09G9kEpB3p0

You are for me
You are everything to me
Now I am suffering, I don't know how to call it
I lost myself after you
I lost myself after you alive
I faded, I didn't protect my heart
I loved you just the way you were
I didn't change you
I still loved you
I don't have tears anymore, I wiped them today

At night how do you sleep
I don't know how you sleep
I don't know where you are
Why aren't we together anymore
Why aren't we

Do you have other one
My heart feels it
Why aren't we together anymore
Why aren't we together anymore
Tell me do you have another one
Where are you hiding her
Do you have another one
My heart feels it
Where are we
We aren't anymore
You killed my heart, you're a murderer

You didn't feel
You didn't mean any word
You only lied with the words you said
I loved you just the way you were
I didn't change you
I still loved you
I don't have tears anymore ,I wiped them today

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FX3yLOerNs

I know that people walk away when you are not good
Those who loved you when you were ok
But I'm here for you my love
In each of your hard days

Friends always more rarely on the phone
Where are the old friends why don't they remember us
Let them better all walk away
Cause you have me, my soul
I love you, i love you, i love you

Sometimes also I get angry
More about stupid things that are worthless
But I always find a way to say I am sorry
I cannot lie to you, you know me

And when we haven't seen each other for a long time
Also then when people have separated us
I thank them all
Because they increase my love

You have me, you have me
let them all walk away, my soul
Cause you have me
I love you, i love you, i love you

Until the end of life
I did a promise to myself
I pray every morning for you
to be good, us to be together

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvo9gWveMd8

When i talk (think) about you
My heart wakes up
cuz' you are an open wound that burn inside me
So i don't want to talk (think) about you
cuz' the longing invade me

So many years passed
but i still hate you
The memories breaks my smile
I can't not talk (think) about you
I have to write about my pain

I live in pain, I live in silence
In so much hate and love for you
I gave everything to you, all myself
"You thanked" me with your betrayal
Fu** off , you don't deserve to talk (think) about you
But it's in vain (my anger)
I can't not talk (think) about you

Today, i and the guitar will console each other
I loved you with all my soul
I can't make disappear those memories
even if they aren't important anymore

Let the guitar to cry with me
cuz' you have leave me like i was trash
And if you want to know how i am doing
i don't have an address for you

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKne-Mcrdzs

I do not deserve your tears
I do not deserve to be missed by you
How much I hurt you
How much I hurt you
I don't deserve to be forgiven
I don't deserve to be forgiven at all
how much I hurt you

I am not able to say farewell
I am not able to say because my legs are shaking
In front of you I was always weak
I am not able to say farewell
I can only wish you all the best
and pray that God has counted your tears

I am begging you to go before it is late
you better follow your dreams
and leave the memories, forget me
forget all the love I once give you
and maybe in another life we can be together


You deserve flowers every morning
To be kissed when you do not expect it
To be listen when you talk
and only love to be given
I gave you 1 million reasons
1 million reasons to leave me
and still you stayed

You stayed because you loved me
You came back because you believed
that i could have you in my heart
that I could love you as you love me

And I will never change
Time will not heal me
It is better for you to go
you better live without me

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLcLaR8jKlY

Barbaro Vasiliko*, who want my sheep?
Who want them, cuz i can't take care of anything
I can't take care of them
cuz i have "to play" with that beautiful girl

Beautiful girl with that cute skirt
i became your lover
I became your lover
all for your beautiful eyes and eyebrow

The window is near the road
and i drink to burn the passion of love
I drink to burn the passion of love
All for of the girl sleeping in her room

Imam**make a Du'a*** for me
make a Du'a for me
cuz' i'm going crazy
I'm going crazy for that beautiful girl

* Male name
** Is an Islamic leadership position.
***In Islam, Duʿāʾ, literally meaning appeal or "invocation", is a prayer of supplication or request

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltd4KDt1r-Q

There cant be enough sunlight flooding the earth
There cant be enough blue sky for the birds

From the misty London, ready to begin
His name is Is, Isa Boletin

Centuries have taught me, a thousand years of wisdom
The time is now or never, for Albania's freedom.

Wait for me, I'm almost there, wait, oh, Arbëri
Without Kosova there is no Shqipëri

Long live my brothers, sons of Dardani
Hail the soldier of Vaja, the face of bravery

Adem Jashari's brother, kin of Skanderbeg
We will sew ourselves the map of fatherland

I asked the prairies and the sea about the rock of Vaja
Tell me where to find the tomb of Indrit Cara

The prairie quietly answered go to mount Pashtrik
The sea gently brought me to the shores of Adriatic

Like fingers of a hand we were a band of brethren
Each and every one, together, like an eagle's feathers

A frontline filled with flowers and acts of bravery
Fighting for the red and black flag of Shqipëri

Long live my brothers, sons of Dardani
Hail the soldier of Vaja, the face of bravery

Adem Jashari's brother, kin of Skanderbeg
We will sew ourselves the map of fatherland

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-mqk5hjb1o


This cursed sea is screaming
Their target is the "Albanian blood"
"Plisat" * are swimming in the sea
(they come to the surface from bodies sink in the sea)
All of this to make disappear the "Albanian blood"
Why doesn't the sea absorb them?
Waves mixed with blood pass over their bodies

You can see everywhere "mitana"** and "shoka"**
They remained on the beach
the soil did not absorb them
What is it saying that young boy?
"Bring to my mother a piece of me"

Their mothers are awaiting for them
they pregnant wives too
They have left their houses on fire
from the doorstep, all covered in blood
(their families blood, that were persecuted too)
What is the matters with the sea?
What is the matters with Bar?
Albanians are dying, countless times.

They are waiting for the bullets
without making a sound
(they died like a "real man")
So many corpses "one over the other"!
Welcome to the Bar's grave
When the Albanians will need
young brave men
All of them will stand up
and leaves their graves
(their history will be always remembered)


* Plural of "Plisi". The traditional Albanian hat.
** Parts of traditional Albanian clothing.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHWnaGNLrmo

This dots skirt
how beautifully you wear it
Raise your head, sweetheart
the need to see your face is killing me

I hear your voice constantly
(i'm obsessed with you)
And even in the simple act of walking
you seem like shining

In the morning, early
i came to meet you
And damn, how my heart trembles
when you look into me eyes

You are in my head, everywhere i go
(i think of you constantly)
And I don't sleep anymore
cuz i lost my head for you

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toAQfuHuRvc

I think about it, everyday
how we aren't together anymore
And i don't understand "why"
oh sweetheart, light of my life

I had only you in this life
and there isn't any hope
that can bring us together
Sweetheart, you broke the two of us

I didn't make any mistake
nor i betrayaled you
Maybe i loved you too much

For din and iman*
why you left me
For the God's sake
why you left me in tears
If it's a sin that i loved you too much
i declare myself guilty

For din and iman*
why you left me
For the God's sake
why you left me in tears
If, today, in this world
loving you is a sin
Oh God, take my soul away
this world isn't for me

What broke us apart
what broke us in two
sweetheart, light of my eyes
My eyes became blind
cuz they don't see you anymore
My heart too, it perish in its own pain
sweetheart, you broke the two of us

* "din and iman" is an Islamic concept
Din is an Araic word that means judgment, custom, and religion.
Iman in Islamic theology denotes a believer's faith in the metaphysical aspects of Islam.

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwFZjD3Vzk

They say that time cure everything
for me, it only increase the pain
I always thought that love is sacred
my mistake, it only make you "go mad"

Oh my, it is so painful
i cry and cry, for him i don't exist
There isn't justice in love
i'm going crazy, he doesn't think about me

You like her
i feel it, i see it in your eyes
I prepare you, every morning
for she, so you can be her gift

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX-mPv6UAWc

How wonderful youth is
The best life has to give
Cause old age brings bad news
You have to pay your dues

From one flower to the next
Having fun and all the rest
Never thought I'd be on stage
Celebrating my old age

Listen carefully to what I say
There is but one and only truth
A man's age is not his birthday
Never let go of your youth

Years go by one after the other
Like seasons they come and go
No one knows my dear brother
How long his candle will glow

Ponder not, oh desperate man
To much about these things
For God has made a plan
He's got us by the strings

Listen carefully to what I say
There is but one and only truth
A man's age is not his birthday
Never let go of your youth

[Alboz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwb599ET0yc

Saint George’s Day is returning, boy
Saint George’s Day is returning, boy
Autumn is departing, lover, oh
Autumn is departing, honey, oh

That long coat you’re wearing, boy
That long coat you’re wearing, boy
Weighs heavy on your shoulders, lover, oh
Weighs heavy on your shoulders, honey, oh

That short coat you’re wearing, boy
That short coat you’re wearing, boy
Has your knees freezing, lover, oh
Has your knees freezing, honey, oh

When autumn comes this year, boy
When autumn comes this year, boy
We’ll go to the vineyard together, lover, oh
We’ll go to the vineyard together, honey, oh

When will you send for me, boy
When will you send for me, boy
Your father won’t allow, lover, oh
Your father won’t allow, honey, oh

What does my father have against, boy
What does my father have against, boy
My darling, lover, oh
My darling, honey, oh

If my father won’t give me away, boy
If my father won’t give me away, boy
Hit the long road, lover, oh
But
Take me with you, honey, oh