Requiem - Đorđe Balašević

Kad god prođem ulicom, sa tvojim imenom

Pomislim na onu pesmu…

Već je godinama ne pevam

Stari refren nikom ne treba

A ljudi pesme, kratko pamte

Komandante…

Ostaće u knjigama i priča o nama:

Balkan krajem jednog veka

Svako pleme crta granicu

Svi bi hteli svoju stranicu…

Tope se snovi kao sante

Ej Komandante…

Na barikadama, su opet zastave

Svet ide, k’o na praznike

I decu izvode, s' jutarnje nastave

Da vide, gladne radnike…

A gde smo mi, naivni

Što smo se dizali na «Hej Sloveni»?

Kao da smo uz tu priču izmišljeni (i prevareni…)

Vremena su nezgodna, za momka kao ja

Koji gleda svoja posla…

Nisam lutak da me naviju

Imam samo Jugoslaviju…

Sve druge baklje, bez mene plamte

E Komandante…

I svi su tu, da dobiju na toj lutriji…

Na barikadama, su uvek najbrži

Al' nikad i najmudriji

I kad god prođem ulicom, sa tvojim imenom

Pomislim na Panta rei…

Baciće se, tako, neki lik

Kamenom i na tvoj spomenik

Jer sve se menja

I sve teče… Čoveče

Whenever I walk down the street, with your name on it

I think of that song…

I haven't sung it in years

Nobody needs an old chorus

And people remember the song for a short time

Commander…

Stories about us will remain in the books:

The Balkans at the end of a century

Each tribe draws a line

Everyone would like their page…

Dreams melt like snowdrops

Hey Commander…

At the barricades, there are flags again

The world is going on like a holiday

They also take the children out of the morning classes

To see, hungry workers…

And where are we, naive

What did we get on "Hey Slavs"?

It's as if we were made up (and deceived uz) with that story

Times are awkward, for a guy like me

Who looks after his business…

I'm not a puppet to be cheered on

I only have Yugoslavia…

All the other torches, without me, are burning

E Commander…

And everyone is there to win the lottery…

At the barricades, they are always the fastest

But never the wisest

And whenever I walk down the street, with your name on it

I think of Panta rei…

That's how a character will be cast

With a stone and on your monument

Because everything is changing

And everything flows… Man