IDAN SOBOL

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SUDDENLY ANOTHER WAR IS OVER

Original Lyrics: Idan Sobol
Music and English Version of Lyrics: Drora Havkin

war is over, Suddenly another
All is quiet, but the earth is red,
 corpses are still warm Still no celebrations,
And don’t look really dead.

 over and forlorn, Yet another year is
Buildings are restored and bustling sounds awake;
 gentle to memorials,  All alone We go
After all what difference does it make?

Spring was here before and spring will come again,
 grew up – learned how to be adorned, Little girls
 urgent yet, Memories can wait, there’s nothing
The dead are dead and mourned.

 been much worse; After all it could have
Little comfort can bring joy some how.
In the battlefields New green grass grow
So another war is over now.

LAUREL WREATH THE
OR: THE GENERALS HONKY-TONK

Original Lyrics: Idan Sobol
Music and English Version of Lyrics: Drora Havkin


 our sweet Laurel Wreath Tonight we shall rest on
 year, And we’ll do so tomorrow, next week and next
Because one doesn’t run from a sweet Laurel Wreath
 rest on a sweet Laurel Wreath. After one had a

Tonight we shall rest on our sweet Laurel Wreath
We shall do so tomorrow, next month and next year,
 does one do on sweet Laurel Wreath Because what
Besides his royal needs?

 We’ll recline on our sweet Laurel Wreath Tonight
 next month and next year, We’ll recline there next week and
 in... But first we’ll caress and then stick it
What’s life without sticking in Laurel Wreath?

 retire to our sweet Laurel Wreath Tonight we’ll
 year, We’ll retire tomorrow, next week and next
For what’s more sublime than Laurel Wreath?
 Laurel Wreath! The coming on sweet



Mediterranean Waltz

Original Lyrics: Idan Sobol
Music and English Version of Lyrics: Drora Havkin


 is springtime and nothing has changed... It
 one: Fly my little bird, my true
All the flowers are cheaper again
  And my breasts are exposed to the sun.

It is springtime and nothing has changed...
 hay, then sleep: We will roll in the
All we long for is to touch and engage
 to reach the deep. With whom we long

It is springtime and nothing has changed...
 the dead still lie in their graves: No,
dreams And it’s wise between certain
To be careful and well to behave.

It is springtime and nothing has changed!
Little bird – fly! I’ve opened the door...
 there’s no escape: Every child knows
 war. There’ll be always another

JUST ANOTHER SOLDIER

 Original Lyrics: Idan Sobol
Music and English Version of Lyrics: Drora Havkin

I’m just another soldier
 dig, dig, And I dig,
Another war will come
I’m in a trench deep, deep.

and dig and dig I dig
I’ve nearly done my work
I slowly crawl outside;
 call me “Father-Earth”. They

Another war will start,
 apart, My buddies blown
For just another soldier
Nothing changes much.

 digging, and I go on
I’ve nearly done my share,
I slowly crawl outside,
 call me “Father-Earth”. You

Another war will start,
 apart, My buddies blown
But just another soldier
Down there can’t be heard.

 deep in my trench, I am
My call cannot be heard,
 soldier... I’m just another
Roger, over and out
Oh-Yeh...

Blues Hivernal

Paroles : Idan Sobol

Musique : Ilan Virtzberg

Quand la nuit tombe froide j'ai mal
Tu es l'homme, l'etranger
De toi seul j'ai envie

Tu me donnes la main sans savoir
Me fais du bien, me reconforte
Tu fous le camp a l'aube

Quand la nuit tombe froide j'ai mal
Sans toi il n y a pas de lendemain
Alors partons ensemble

Quand la nuit tombe froide j'ai mal
Je suis a toi sans un seul mot
Prends et repars avant l'aube

Seulement toi tu es l'etranger
Tu sais, tu ne sais pas
Qu'as-tu su

Quand la nuit tombe froide j'ai mal
Sinon toi celui qui viendra
Sera le mien

Nous partirons soudain
Cette nuit je serai seule
Et il gelera
Gelera a mort

Et toi tu geleras
Sans l'espoir que demain
Tu sois a moi

Winter Blues

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Lyrics: Idan Sobol
Music: Ilan Virtzberg

Sung by Gali Atari

(From her CD: “SONGS THAT WILL BRING YOU LOVE”)

When the night falls deep, cold and bad

You are the one, the stranger that

I will seek like blind in darkness

Come and touch my secret places now

Oh, do me good – Oh, make me worm

And withdraw like nights at dawns...

When the night falls long, hard and dark

If you exist out of dreams

Come let us withdraw together

Let’s withdraw for better and for worse

Leaving far behind all our mess

Let it freeze and look like icebergs...

When the night falls deep, cold and bad

I am all yours – go ahead

Take me quickly before dawn!

Only you, my stranger, can remain

The one that knew me all the way

And still ignore it...

When the night falls long, hard and dark

If you will not come, he who comes

Will be my one night stranger

And you will freeze –freeze somewhere

From early dark till dawn

Yes! Without hope to know me!

When the night falls deep cold and bad

Only loneliness allures

Us both and Hail to that!

Because tomorrow we’ll be free again

So free like rain or hail or snow

To come and go...

We’ll be free again – free to ignore

Like strangers that have never met –

Do I know you?