You said, “I will go to another place, to another shore.

You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,

Another city can be found that’s better than this.

find another city better than this one.

All that I struggle for is doomed, condemned to failure;

Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong

and my heart is like a corpse interred.

and my heart lies buried like something dead.

How long will my mind stagger under this misery?

How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?

Wherever I turn, wherever I look

Wherever I turn, wherever I look,

I see the blackened ruins of my life,

I see the black ruins of my life, here,

which for years on end I squandered and wrecked and ravaged”.

where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”

You will find no other place, no other shores.

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.

This city will possess you, and you’ll wander the same

This city will always pursue you.

streets. In these same neighborhoods you’ll grow old;

You’ll walk the same streets, grow old

in these same houses you’ll turn gray.

in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.

Always you’ll return to this city. Don’t even hope for another.

You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:

There’s no boat for you, there’s no other way out.

there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.

In the way you’ve destroyed your life here,

Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,

in this little corner, you’ve destroyed it everywhere else.

you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.