Le’atzmi Bilvad
Al asher od lo haya li
Al asher od lo avad
Afazem pizmon banali
Le’atzmi bilvad

Nigunim harbe niganti
Nigunim le-lo ha-chen
Rak oto asher hevanti
Lo eda nagen

Ki ha-tza’if alai ha-ofel
Ki halakh mimeni mi
Iva-ter mi-mul la-ofek
Ke-ilan bedami

Sham ba-kfar, al gdot ha-nakhal
Bein atzei ha-dovdevan
Yesh od delet she-niftachat
Likrati ba-gan

Yesh chiyukh od zore’ach
Yesh dim’a od nirdema
Ve-ha-rokhav ve-ha-re’ach
Sham la-adama

Sham ha-ya’ar od paru’a
Sham ha-derekh avivit
Sham la-tchelet ve-la-ruach
Et panai oshit

Od tzafui li yom gavo’ah
Le-ha’if bo kol yonai
U-ve-khol asher avo’a
Yevorakhu panai

U-ferachim ad ha-birkayim
Yitchayekhu li min ha-bar
Ve-shirei katsir ve-kayitz
Afazer ba-kfar

Az yitav pit’om li kakha
Mi-mapolat ha-shanim
U-va-ya’ar u-va-nakhal
Ivaled shenit

Al asher od lo haya li
Al asher od lo avad
Afazem pizmon banali
Le’atzmi bilvad

Afazem pizmon banali
Le’atzmi bilvad

To Myself Only
For all that I have not yet had
For all that has not yet been lost
I hum a banal little tune
To myself only

Many melodies have I played
Melodies without grace
Only that which I understood
I still cannot play

For the scarf of darkness is upon me
For the one who was mine has gone
I remain facing the horizon
Like a tree in silence

There in the village, by the riverbanks
Among the cherry trees
There is still a door that opens
Toward me in the garden

There is still a smile that shines
There is still a tear that has fallen asleep
And the breadth and the scent
Are there, in the earth

There the forest is still wild
There the path is springlike
There, to the blue of sky and to the wind
I will stretch out my face

A high day still awaits me
When I will send all my doves to flight
And wherever I may come
My face will be blessed

And flowers up to the knees
Will smile at me from the wild
And songs of harvest and summer
I will scatter through the village

Then suddenly it will be good for me
After the landslide of years
And in the forest and in the stream
I will be born again

For all that I have not yet had
For all that has not yet been lost
I hum a banal little tune
To myself only

I hum a banal little tune
To myself only