Paroles et traduction Arsen Dedić - Balada O Prolaznosti

Balada O Prolaznosti

Kad lutali smo svijetom
Kao raspršeno sjeme
Govorili smo sebi
To je za neko vrijeme

I ne znajuć′ da smo
Na izgubljenom brodu
Mi vikali smo: "Kopno!"
Dok gledali smo vodu

Kad ljubili smo kratko
U tuzi kišne noći
Govorili smo za se
Da ljubav tek će doći

Muziku podržava

Postavljali smo stvari
Ali opet ne za dugo
Za sva smo mjesta rekli
Odredit ćemo drugo

Kad rađala se sreća
I čekala je slava
Pomišljali smo opet
To nije ona prava

Kad prijatelja nema
A dani idu sporo
Govorili smo za se
Da vraćaju se skoro

Gdje najviše smo dali
Dobivali smo manje,
Ali mislili smo – to je
Tek privremeno stanje

Kad gubili smo život
Govorili smo: "Neka"
I vjerovali čvrsto
Da pravi tek nas čeka

Putovali smo dalje
Kad davno već smo stigli
Tek počeli smo nešto
A drugo već smo bili

I ostali smo tako
Kraj odlazeće vode,
Nerazjašnjeni sasvim
I pomalo van mode

U započetoj priči
U ljubavi bez traga,
Jer svakoj smo se kući
Približili do praga.

U privremenom redu
Nekorištenih stvari
Ni osjetili nismo
Da sami smo, i stari

Dok vjerovali još smo
Da svaki put se mijenja
Mi rekli smo si zbogom
Govoreć doviđenja

Ballad Of Transience

When we wandered the world
Like dispersed seeds
We told ourselves
This is for a time

Not knowing that we were
On a lost ship
We shouted: "Land!"
As we watched the water

When we loved briefly
In the sorrow of rainy nights
We spoke of ourselves
That love would only come

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We set things up
But again not for long
We said for all the places
We'll determine another

When happiness was born
And glory awaited
We thought again
That it wasn't the right one

When a friend is gone
And the days go slowly
We spoke of ourselves
That they will return soon

Where we gave the most
We received less
But we thought – that is
Only a temporary state

When we were losing our lives
We said: "Whatever"
And believed firmly
That the real one is waiting for us

We traveled on
When long ago we had already arrived
We had just started something
And something else we had already been

And so we remained
Beside the receding waters
Not quite clarified
And somewhat out of fashion

In the story begun
In love without a trace
For every house we had
Approached to the doorstep.

In the provisional order
Of unused things
We didn't even feel
That we were alone, and old

While we still believed
That every road changes
We said goodbye to each other
Saying goodbye