With some trepidation, I make another attempt to translate a Barış Manço song. As always, your help would be much appreciated. 

I like this song very much. Çok güzel. Çok hüzünlü.

If you would like to see and hear Barış sing this song, here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTxEvb4eBHI

Bir Bahar Akşamı (One Spring Evening)

Bir bahar akşamı rastladım size

One spring evening I encountered you.

Bir bahar akşamı rastladım size

One spring evening I encountered you.

Sevinçli bir telaş içindeydiniz derinden bakınca gözlerinize

A joyful commotion could be seen deep in your eyes

Neden başınızı öne eğdiniz neden başınızı öne eğdiniz

Why do you turn your head forward? Why do you turn your head forward?

İçimde uyanan eski bir arzu

Awakening inside an old longing 

İçimde uyanan eski bir arzu

Awakening inside an old longing

Dedi ki yıllardır aradığın bu şimdi soluyorum büküp boynumu

That said for years we sought this, now turning pale I bend my neck

Daha önceleri neredeydiniz daha önceleri neredeydiniz

Long before, where were you? Long before, where were you? 

Neden başınızı öne eğdiniz neden başınızı öne eğdiniz

Why do you turn your head forward? Why do you turn your head forward

I think this means

Why do you bow your head

Lyrics of this song belong to FUAT EDİP BAKSI, and the composer is SELAHATTİN PINAR. BARIŞ MANÇO is one of many performers.

Thank you, AlphaF! From my translation, I interpreted this song to be about two people who had been in love at one time and then meet perhaps many years later. They realize they still have the same feelings, but they can´t express them to each other, perhaps because they are promised or married to others. But your translation makes me think that perhaps I´m not right about that. How do you interpret the song?

No...The song is about an old man.

He sees a young modest girl of exceptional beauty and regrets that the time for him now is only for admiring her fröm a safe distance.

Ah, very nice. Thank you!