Du-te dor
Du-te dor (Romanian)
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Du-te dor cu dorurile
Du-te dor cu dorurile
Peste toate dealurile
Peste toate dealurile
Du-te și la omul meu
Du-te și la omul meu
Că-i departe și mi-e greu
Că-i departe și mi-e greu
Du-te, du-te, du-te
Prinde aripi dorule
Acolo unde mor stelele
Du-te dor cu dorurile
Du-te dor cu dorurile
Peste toate dealurile
Peste toate dealurile
Du-te și la omul meu
Du-te și la omul meu
Că-i departe și mi-e greu
Că-i departe și mi-e greu
De te-o intreba ce fac
De te-o intreba ce fac
Spune-i că m-am măritat
Dar eu dorul nu l-am uitat
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Du-te dor - Go away my longing (English)
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Go away, my longing, go and take all the other pains with you
Go, my longing, go and take all the other pains with you
Go over the hills
Go over the hills
Go to my man
Go to my man
Because he is far away and I am in pain
Because he is far away and I am in pain
Go, go, go
Go and grow wings “my love”
Go there, where the stars are dying
Go away, my longing, go and take all the other pains with you
Go my longing, go and take all the other pains with you
Go over the hills
Go over the hills
Go to my man
Go to my man
Because he is far away and I am in pain
Because he is far away and I am in pain
If he is going to ask you how my life has been
If he is going to ask you how my life has been
Tell him I got married
But I didn’t forget my “love/pain/passion/longing”
​This song speaks about a woman longing for her lover, begging this feeling will go away. The Romanian word “dor” is one of those words that can never be translated accurately. The Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica said: “«Dor» has something prototypical in its nature: it is an unstructured construction, an indivisible whole, as many other Romanian words which have a deep and specific meaning. «Dor» is a fusion, not a compounding. The Latin word «dolor», i.e. «pain», where it originates from, fused with pleasure, grown out of pain, one can’t really understand how”.
​Musically, this piece was inspired by a traditional Romanian folk song documented by ethnomusicologist Constantin Brăiloiu
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Tereza Catarov - voice
Alex Simu - clarinet
Cem Evin - guitar
Yiorgos Bereris - piano
Thodoris Ziarkas - bass
Billy Pod - drums
Sound engineer - Simone Galizio
Mixing and Mastering - Alex Bonney