Yıkılmadım, ayaktayım

English translation: I'm Still Standing!

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Turkish term or phrase:Yıkılmadım, ayaktayım
English translation:I'm Still Standing!
Entered by: Taner Göde

15:29 Feb 5, 2008
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Turkish term or phrase: Yıkılmadım, ayaktayım
Yıkılmadım, ayaktayım (Şarkıdaki arabesk anlamı arıyorum...)
Aysun Demir
United Kingdom
I'm Still Standing!
Explanation:
Of course this is Elton John's I'm Still Standing! One of the best pop music songs of the glorious 80's!

http://www.eltonography.com/songs/im_still_standing.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Still_Standing

You could never know what it's like
Your blood like winter freezes just like ice
And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you
You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use

And did you think this fool could never win
Well look at me, I'm coming back again
I got a taste of love in a simple way
And if you need to know while I'm still standing you just fade away

Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah
I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

Once I never could hope to win
You starting down the road leaving me again
The threats you made were meant to cut me down
And if our love was just a circus you'd be a clown by now
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Taner Göde
Türkiye
Local time: 03:40
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Summary of answers provided
5 +4I'm Still Standing!
Taner Göde
4 +1Still surviving
Mehmet Hascan
5undismayed and of good hope
Ali Bayraktar
4 +1I'm standing tall
Nagme Yazgin
5I did not fall down, but standing
Salih YILDIRIM


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
I'm Still Standing!


Explanation:
Of course this is Elton John's I'm Still Standing! One of the best pop music songs of the glorious 80's!

http://www.eltonography.com/songs/im_still_standing.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Still_Standing

You could never know what it's like
Your blood like winter freezes just like ice
And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you
You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use

And did you think this fool could never win
Well look at me, I'm coming back again
I got a taste of love in a simple way
And if you need to know while I'm still standing you just fade away

Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind

I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah
I'm still standing yeah yeah yeah

Once I never could hope to win
You starting down the road leaving me again
The threats you made were meant to cut me down
And if our love was just a circus you'd be a clown by now


Taner Göde
Türkiye
Local time: 03:40
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Tesekkurler

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ilhan Gadis: yeah yeah yeah!
2 mins
  -> Teşekkürler Sn. Gadis! Frankie Goes to Hollywood, OMD, Eurythmics, Van Halen, Berlin, Commodores, Billy Ocean, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, INXS, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Jimmy Sommerville, Visage, The Verve, Yes, Bad Boys Blue, Imagination ♪♫♪♫♪ ♫♫ ♫

agree  Kcda: Visage: "we fade to grey" Bende orijinal 45'lik duruyor, zamanında almıştım! Acaba para edermi?
1 hr
  -> Teşekkürker Sn. Kdca. 80'li yıllarda single bile pahalıydı, ve radyodan kasete kayıt yapardık (C-60'lıklara)...

agree  akhilleus (X)
2 hrs
  -> Teşekkür ederim Sn. akhilleus.

agree  Özgür Salman
9 hrs
  -> Teşekkür ederim Sn. Cyrogenix.
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Still surviving


Explanation:
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Note added at 16 mins (2008-02-05 15:46:08 GMT)
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"I'm" can be omitted.

Mehmet Hascan
Ireland
Local time: 01:40
Native speaker of: Turkish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Serkan Doğan: Gloria Gaynor'un I will survive şarkısında olduğu gibi.
43 mins
  -> Teşekkürler Serkan Bey.
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
undismayed and of good hope


Explanation:
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Ali Bayraktar
Türkiye
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
I'm standing tall


Explanation:
" I'm here, standing tall" derdim ben olsam.

Nagme Yazgin
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Özgür Salman
2 hrs
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306 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
I did not fall down, but standing


Explanation:
self-explanatory

Salih YILDIRIM
United States
Local time: 20:40
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
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