Siti Nurhaliza – Seindah Biasa English Translation

Dato’ Siti Nurhaliza – Seindah Biasa English Translation

Lyrics by: Pongky Jikustik

Seindah Biasa / As Beautiful As Always

Don’t ever be afraid of me leaving you

The moment when the stars stop singing

The moment when the night gets too cold

To the extent the morning is not as beautiful as always

It’s impossible for us to bear

Going through life alone

Scorching heat storming rain

We face it together

The moment when I lost my direction

You would know where to go

Whether it be bright or dark

We face it together

I can’t change the things that has already happened

But I’ll promise to do my very best

So that we will never grew apart                                                              

Even if we have different destinations to go to

It’s impossible for us to bear

Going through life alone

Scorching heat storming rain

We face it together

The moment when I lost my direction

You would know where to go

Whether it be bright or dark

We face it together

We once had fallen

And tried to stand up

Enduring the pain and crying

But the meaning of life is more than that

And we tried to fight back

It’s impossible for us to bear

Going through life alone

Scorching heat storming rain

We face it together

It’s impossible for us to bear

Going through life alone

Scorching heat storming rain

We face it together

The moment when I lost my direction

You would know where to go

Whether it be bright or dark

We face it together

We face it together

We face it together.

Original Malay lyrics

Jangan pernah takut ku tinggalkan

Saat bintang tak mampu lagi berdendang

Saat malam menjadi terlalu dingin

Hingga pagi tak seindah biasanya

Takkan mungkin kita bertahan

Hidup dalam bersendirian

Panas terik hujan badai

Kita lalui bersama

Saat hilang arah tujuan

Kau tahu ke mana berjalan

Meski terang meski gelap

Kita lalui bersama

Ku tak bisa merubah yang telah terjadi

Tapi aku akan menjanjikan yang terbaik

Agar kita tak pernah menjadi jauh

Meski beza dermaga untuk kita berlabuh

Takkan mungkin kita bertahan

Hidup dalam bersendirian

Panas terik hujan badai

Kita lalui bersama

Saat hilang arah tujuan

Kau tahu ke mana berjalan

Meski terang meski gelap

Kita lalui bersama

Pernah kita jatuh

Mencuba berdiri

Menahan sakit dan menangis

Tapi erti hidup lebih dari itu

Dan kita mencuba melawan

Takkan mungkin kita bertahan

Hidup dalam bersendirian

Panas terik hujan badai

Kita lalui bersama...

Takkan mungkin kita bertahan

Hidup dalam bersendirian

Panas terik hujan badai

Kita lalui bersama

Saat hilang arah tujuan

Kau tahu ke mana berjalan

Meski terang meski gelap

Kita lalui bersama

Kita lalui bersama

Kita lalui bersama.

Seindah Biasa music video with original Malay lyrics
-credits to the video owner


My 2 cents thoughts while translating...

This song is definitely one of my favorite Siti Nurhaliza song growing up. To be honest, Dato’ Siti Nurhaliza has been and always will be my most favourite Malaysian singer. I’ve always felt that her golden voice is no doubt one of Malaysia’s most precious treasures. Or perhaps even Asia’s. So anyway, this song has a very catchy melody and with its uplifting lyrics, it becomes one of Dato’ Siti’s most popular songs. 

When I read the lyrics again while translating, I realized that the song is very universal(?) haha.  Other than between lovers or married couples, this song is also meant between friends, acquaintances or even strangers that have some kind of connections with you in life. Well, since everyone will go through hardships in their life, right? Some people may face difficulty in things that might seem easy to other people and some people may find ease in things that might seem difficult to other people. But one thing is for sure. Everyone is fighting their own battle. Though it may not seem like it to others. So just be kind, really. We definitely don’t need more hatred in this world.

For this song, I mostly translate it literally because the words and sentences are quite straightforward in its meaning. Except for one line though. In the third verse of the song which is after the first chorus, I translated the last line of the verse, “Meski beza dermaga untuk kita berlabuh” into “Even if we have different destinations to go to”. The literal meaning of the line is “even if we have different docks for us to dock into.” ………..It sounds so weird and…well, not really as pleasing to hear as it was in Malay. Maybe it is my own incompetence for not being able to find other words for ‘dermaga’ or ‘berlabuh’ in English but for now, those were the only words that came to my mind when I tried to translate the line. Oh welp.

Edit: I found another word for ‘dermaga’ which is ‘wharf’. “Even if we have different wharves for us to dock into”…hmm… well, I decided to just stick to its connotative meaning haha.