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“Seeing Far, Seeing Clear”

This is my attempt at a translation of a hebrew song by Shmulik Kraus, called - “Seeing Far, Seeing Clear”.

As things went awry

I had no choice but try

To spread my wings and fly away

To a place where my

Longing, wandering eyes

Could see so clearly

Far away

Chorus:

Man is like a wild fire

Ever hungering

And in him- embodying desire

A flame is burning

Then my path was lost

With nothing left to trust

I searched so desperate, in a haze

For a speck of truth

To give me back my youth

And to the future turn my gaze.

(Chorus)

A flame once made me leave

In search of greater things

I roamed and raged for days on-end

Then back home I found

That you are still around

To be with me until the end.