Rezso Seress Original Gloomy Sunday Lyrics (A Modern Take)

The Gloomy Sunday we know today is based on the lyrics of Hungarian poet László Jávor. The original Hungarian Composer and pianist, Rezso Seress, had his own lyrics that were replaced early on. The version most people are familiar with today is not based on the composers original lyrics! It'll be nice to one day get someone to sing his original lyrics over his haunting melody!

Now, you will hear them, first in English and then in Hungarian by my pal Istvan Urban (Hungary)


LITERAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
World Has Come To Its End

't is autumn with withered
leaves whirling.
On earth, love among
people has died.
With tears of sorrow the
autumn wind's sobbing,
for a new spring my heart
is too hopeless to wait.
Invain all my tears, all
my sufferings invain,
heartless the people, wicked
and all full of greed...

Love has died!

The world and all hope
has come to its end,
Cities wiped out in
resounding shrapnel.
Bright meadows with human
blood coloured red.
Dead people scattered
on the streets everywhere.
So once more quietly
I will say my prayer:
"My Lord, people are
erring and prone to sin...

World has come to its end!

(Transl. by A.W. Tüting)




--sz van és peregnek a sárgult levelek

Meghalt a földön az emberi szeretet
Bánatos könnyekkel zokog az öszi szél
Szívem már új tavaszt nem vár és nem remél
Hiába sírok és hiába szenvedek
Szívtelen rosszak és kapzsik az emberek...

Meghalt a szeretet!

Vége a világnak, vége a reménynek
Városok pusztulnak, srapnelek zenélnek
Emberek vérét--l piros a tarka rét
Halottak fekszenek az úton szerteszét
Még egyszer elmondom csendben az imámat:
Uram, az emberek gyarlók és hibáznak...

Vége a világnak!



Music by Tmac
http://www.delvinshademusic.com

Set to rare old footage of the Hungarian 1956 Revolution and also to the 2006 Hungarian Revolution. See end of the video for additional credits.


This spoken word piece is part of Darc Kontinents International collaboration project via the net to keep poetry and spoken word alive!
http://www.myspace.com/DarcKontinents
http://www.darckontinents.lilasakura.com

A Lila Production

Category:

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• Rare
• Gloomy
• Sunday
• Rezso
• Seress
• Suicide
• Song
• Hungary
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• Word
• Poetry
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[lexcove]

this is isnt the real one

[LilaSakura]

Mmm read the "more info", these are the "original" lyrics, I wasn't meaning the spoken word/music

[klaudia31]

Ez a magyar öngyilkos dal nem? Most néztem a discoveryn. Állítólag sok szerelmi bánatban szenvedő ember lett öngyilkos miután meghallgatta. Hát igen ez egy elég szomorú, de szép szám.

[LilaSakura]

Hello,a barátom István fordította le a hozzászólásodat.Igen,ez a magyar öngyilkos dal.Ez szép de nagyon szomorúdal.Tetszik István hangja benne és Tmac modern zenéje.Köszönöm a hozzászólásodat! (:

[Tiril89]

it's excellent...a wonderful poem...but just a little correction...we didn't have revolution in 1969...it was in 1956!

[LilaSakura]

Thank you for the correction! (:

[sushilkumarwtp]

i dont feel any kind of horror or suicidable.I think that the story is made to hit and for publicity to this song

[MrEnriqueIglesias11]

Love has died

[TheNonners1]

@11011011011100110 igan

[11011011011100110]

Nahát nem vártam itt magyar szot és föleg nem a vége a világnak igen ritka változatát. Éljen rezsö seress akinek a zenéit a mindenkori depressziosok orokké hallgatják.

Free your mind,

dont kill yoursef.

:L

[IAmContemporary]

@johnnysingson1 Dude. That's not funny man. Even if you do/did intend on doing that, you don't have to make other people suffer whilst you put an end to your suffering.

[johnnysingson1]

i will kill my self today. goodbye to all..!

[mcmmamiaaa]

lol

[kisspap]

Wikipedia - Seress Rezso wrote this lyrics at 2. WW, while he was deported as jew...

[THORA2012]

Nekem tetszik :)

[murmurus]

...

It is somehow funny when hungarian so-called nationalist (and anti-Semitic) bustards are proud of hungarian-jewish artist's work (hiding the origin of the artists).