"" (Bring Me Watermelon to Eat) is a popular Turkish folk-style song famously covered by Yıldız Tilbe in her 2004 album, Yıldız’dan Türküler . The song, originally composed by Celal Gürses (also attributed to Celâl Güzelses in older traditions), uses the refreshing imagery of a watermelon as a metaphor for longing and the bittersweet nature of desire . Lyrics Summary (English Translation)

: "Bring me some watermelon to eat / Open your door so I can enter / Wake up, wake up, and hold me."

: "You appear from across the way / Wrapped in a silk sheet / How beautiful you look inside that silk sheet."

: "Watermelons can no longer be eaten / My face has faded from the heat / I loved a sweetheart, but he left / He went and never came back."