Paroles et traduction Đorđe Balašević - Covek Sa Mesecom U Ocima

Covek Sa Mesecom U Ocima

Sumoran i nem
Jablan gromom razvaljen
Zagledan u čašu preduboku
Bio mi je stran i naizgled normalan
Al' tad mu spazih
Odraz meseca u oku
On me oslovi pa kako idu poslovi
Ma idu, progundžah, u vražijeg vraga
Na to on planu naprasno
Odmeri me sablasno
Nemate vi pojma, bračo draga
Ne znaš ti sta znači ubiti grad
Ne znaš ti bauke kaljavih rovova
Ne znaš ti sta znači spavati sad
Kad sklopim oči ništa osim tih krovova
Kada sklopim oči nebom naidju mobe
Zamirišu gostinjske sobe
Nebom svadba odzvanja
Kada sklopim oči nebom promiću lica
Zatreperi roj tamburica
Dunav sedef odranja
Zverko ludila, što si se probudila
Crni ti je princ poljubac dao
Sl' neču se stideti
Što Boga neću videti
Jer to i nije Bog kojeg sam znao
Ne znaš ti, nema oslobodženih
Svaku tišinu mi granata prošara
Spašen je taj prvi pogodženi
Aasvi su drugi večni taoci košmara
Kada sklopim oči nebom naidžu ladje
Zvona, lavež, komšijske svadže
Miris svežeg oranja
Ali kada svane vetri s reke zacvile
Znam, to tuže vodene vile
Dunav tamjan odranja

Man with a Moon in His Eyes

Gloomy and mute
An oak tree split by lightning
Gazing into a glass too deep
He was a stranger to me and seemingly normal
But then I noticed
A reflection of the moon in his eye
He greeted me and asked how things were going
Oh, they're going, I muttered, to hell and back
At that he suddenly flared up
Measured me up with a sinister stare
You have no idea, my dear brother
You don't know what it means to kill a city
You don't know the horrors of filthy trenches
You don't know what it means to sleep now
When I close my eyes, I see nothing but those roofs
When I close my eyes, the sky is filled with armies
The smell of hotel rooms
The sky echoes with wedding bells
When I close my eyes, faces float across the sky
A swarm of tamburas trembles
The Danube sheds nacre
Beast of madness, why have you awakened?
The dark prince has kissed you
Even so I will not be ashamed
That I will not see God
For this is not the God I knew
You don't know, there are no liberated ones
Every silence is pierced by the shrapnel of a shell
The first one hit is spared
All the others are eternal prisoners of nightmares
When I close my eyes, ships sail across the sky
Bells, barking, neighbors' quarrels
The scent of fresh plowing
But when the sun rises, the winds from the river mourn
I know, it is the water spirits lamenting
The Danube sheds incense