Botah chapeu na kabesa:
mbai, ja fikah fitiseru!
Kifoi?
Kauzu justu kung isti palabra namas,
bos podih amor isti tera!
Ngka, ngka abrakadabra;
yo sa palabra teng mas forsa,
mas mana,
mas astrang:
yo sa palabra sa nomi
MERDEKA.
Botah kapaseti na kabesa:
mbai, ja mprensah bos sa nzelu!
Impeh, soldadu –
maski bos impodih dobrah bos sa perna,
nang dibeh.
Kung yo sa konfiansa
ki bos ngka ta chaokeng
bos ngka gay
bos pun podih fikah Officer.
Bos pun podih buskah
MERDEKA.
Sertu tudu filu Singapura kereh
Sertu nus podih mprensah Singapura.
Sertu nus podih mprensah tudu.
Botah sombra na kabesa:
mbai, ja chupah bos sa pau –
dah boka, dah linggu, amoku dah yo sa dedu kung bos sa petu –
mas nenang fikah gay!
Teng kargadera stranjeru, mbes pra mbes?
Seng – akeli yo sa forsa magikal
ta truseh bos sa kabesa
chuma piang
chuma chumpiang
chuma ladrang di tudu angkoza
kebrah kabesa.
Asih botah berdadi na kabesa:
MERDEKA.
Falah kung yo.
MERDEKA.
Na isti ila, kung isti palabra, isti nomi, isti engkantu apapoitu
keng-keng pun podih librah
di eli onsong.
Set the hat on your head:
let's go, you have become a sorcerer!
Why?
Because with just this one word,
you can fall in love with your country!
No, not abracadabra;
my word is so much stronger,
filled with so much more mana,
so much more of the force:
the name of my word is
MERDEKA.
Set the helmet on your head:
Let’s go, I have fixed your knee!
Stand up, soldier,
even though you cannot bend your leg,
do not worry.
With my belief
that you are not chaokenging,
that you are not gay,
you, too, can be an Officer.
You, too can find
MERDEKA.
Without a doubt, this is something every Singaporean son wants.
Without a doubt, we can fix Singapore.
Without a doubt, we can fix everything.
Set the projection on your head:
Let’s go, I have sucked your penis –
Kissed you, French kissed you, given my fingers to your chest in amok –
but I still haven’t become gay!
Is that a strange pressure on your chest, suddenly?
Yes – that is my magical power
spinning round the tops of your heads
like tops
like pirates
like thieves of everything that threatens
to break your mind.
So set the truth on your head:
MERDEKA.
Say it with me.
MERDEKA.
On this island, with this word, this name, this right enchantment,
anyone and everyone
also can be liberated
from themselves.