Sniffin’ Glue – Müslüm Gürses Album Titles Translated

(Read the related main story here: Crazy Turks – 1 / Müslüm Gürses & the Razor Blades and “Listening to him is like shoveling earth on myself.” Müslüm Gürses Fans on Youtube)

Here is a selection of the best titles from about 75 albums that Müslüm Gürses released. The suffering doesn’t ever have to stop- the fountain of pain and passion never dries out, and it helps that the Turkish language has more romantic and masochistic expressions than any other language- deep-cutting and untranslateable, but I did my best-
Lean back and feel death.

• Isn’t It Enough That You Have Killed Me
• Enough Lord, Enough
• Hopeless Life
• When God Does Not Want
• Bar of the Sad
• Mercy – Cairo Recital
• Coffin
• Don’t Ask Me For Forgiveness
• More And More Collapsing
• You Have Destroyed My Life
• Make My Face Smile
• It Doesn’t Matter
• I’m In An Argument With Myself
• The Unhappy
• Man Of Grief
• The Unfortunate
• Unfaithful Realm
• A Storm Will Break
• The Betrayed
• Give Me Another Drink
• Melancholic Days
• Innocently Created Human
• I Am a Victim Of Friendship, That Is My Fate
• If You Knew – Gruesome.
• Chained Tunnel
• Shattered In Thousand Pieces
• Otherwise I Burn
• The Pain Sticks To Me Like Honey
• Cruel
• You Shot Me From My Heart
• Everything is a Lie
• If Only I Had Been Snow on the Mountains
• The Music Feast of Kings
• My Issue
• A Handful of Tears
• From Soil to Body (My Riot)
• Don’t Look
• My Poems, My Songs (You Are Right)
• The Strange
• Just
• My Poor One
• The World Is a Lie
• In Pieces
• You Did Wrong (I Can’t Escape My Fate)
• Separation Is a Painful Thing
• Time To Wake Up (The Party is Over)

Which party, Müslüm Baba?

by Saliha Enzenauer