Sevdalinka [English translation]

Whatever I sing tonight will sound like a sevdalinka*

I've dreamed a dream of a shepherd girl crying among the plum trees

The thunder struck, the hay caught fire. Her flock scattered

Smoke rose from a lock of her hair... She said her name was Bosnia

What an unusual name for a girl

To some Drina runs on the right, to some, Drina runs on the left

Even if it run downwards and cut the world in two halves

I know a secret passage my calf, a bridge rises where I step.

Even if I was pulled by dark horses... There's no one side for me while you are at the other side.

I still have the old compass in my chest, and fences have grown in fields

Dark shadows that nest in people are flying over me like ravens.

I used to travel in the moonlight through a wilayah** fool of bandits

And now human eyes scare me more than a wolve's.

My friends have been mentioned in prayers a hundred times

Will they be happy to see me, or will they turn away their heads?

What do I lye to them, what do I say? You can't save a world with a song.

Their worries worry me tonight too

While I am getting ready for a trip back home... for a trip back home... abroad.

We used to scatter around the world like beads, carpets used to carry us in the sky.

Were those really the better days, or were we better?

We used to become brothers by looking at each other's eyes and feeling we had the same dreams

And even God didn't mind if we crossed ourselves or bowed

• Artist:Đorđe Balašević
• Album:Devedesete