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Описание: from the mini-album 🎀 Şermin - Part II: School (2026), part of the cycle 🎀 Şermin - Post-Punk Songs from Tevfik Fikret (2026)

A post-punk album based on the children’s poetry of Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret.
Each poem appears as a trilingual set: Turkish original, Ukrainian and English versions.

[Intro]
A sweet face...
A sweet face...

[Verse]
A sweet face,
Imagine, grandmother,
Such a lovely face that I,
When I saw it, thought -

[Verse]
It was you, and I kissed it.
The hair was curling too,
Just like yours;
Just as fine,

[Verse]
And soft.
Its adornment was simple, plain;
It resembled yours so much
That it seemed

[Verse]
As if you had come before me,
Yet wished to escape from me,
Standing there like a stranger,
And the road you would take

[Bridge]
You asked from me,
You asked again,
And I said - Ask someone else!

[Verse]
But that strange manner
Truly hurt my heart!..

[Verse]
And in that moment
You vanished,

[Verse]
My father came; but how!
Hair all disordered,
In great anxiety; as if I

[Verse]
Had fallen ill, or you
Had seen some great fault in me
And grown angry...

[Verse]
He asked - Did a woman
With a sweet face
Pass by here?

[Verse]
I, half in jest,
Half in anger said - Just now
A bird passed by... It kept

[Verse]
Asking: a sweet face,
A smiling face?
And I, exhausted,

[Verse]
Sighed and wept -
I have not seen a smiling face...
Even my grandmother,

[Verse]
I do not know
Why she is
Angry with me... Oh, I understand:

[Outro]
She does not love me, alas!
My child, what has happened, God willing all is well!