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BIRDS TELL LIES



Do not listen, my coat, do not listen
To what the birds are telling you,
You are my confidante in life.

Do not listen, birds tell this lie
With every coming spring;
Do not listen, my coat, do not, ever!



Orhan Veli Translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat, 1989