DA SI MALO VEĆI – IF YOU WERE A BIT BIGGER

You drive like a cabbie
Too fast and second-rate
Your fuse is short
And your nerves frayed
Fury in your eyes
Ire on your tongue
As the time passes
Your blaze grows more fiercely

If you were a bit bigger
You’d be pounding on us all
But you’re not
Too bad for you

Constant yelling and poor jokes
Vocabulary of an average fool
No one is impressed
You’re not liked by anyone
And one day you’ll regret it

If you were a bit bigger
You’d be pounding on us all
But you’re not
How awful for you

All your eggs are in one basket
And once a week you might see the light
Your five minutes come and go
The darkness then returns
And the misery rears its ugly head again

If you were a bit bigger
You’d be pounding on us all
But you’re not
How dreadful it must be

NEĆE PROĆI – IT SHALL NOT PASS!

Those who still remember
Stability and dreams
The world in which the honour
Comes before the means
Will respect the collar blue
For no one’s flame burns eternal
Stalwart hands toiling hard
It’s not right to rip them off

It shall not pass!

Not everyone’s the same
Our circumstances differ
One reaps the benefits
While the other 99 labour

You need guts to live a life
Nothing comes for free
Those who found their quick fortunes
Lack integrity

Possessed by greed
Yachts and real estate
We all know too well
Those who lie to us
Steal from us as well

PLASTIČNE ČAŠE – DISPOSABLE GLASSES

The crowd was celebrating
Something or other
As they drank from plastic cups
They danced clumsily
And shouted loudly
Mixing drinks all night

I watched them
Frenzied by alcohol
Crawling on the floor
Trampling over each other

Imported holidays
Contagion by adverts
Witches and zombies
A new dress code
Candle flickers inside the pumpkin
Hollywood is coming
Bringing us bliss

Some lips went gladly
Where the sun doesn’t shine
And shared their glass with all
Members of the same team
They’ll use those lips one day
To kiss their kids goodnight

Behind the façade
They’re all bright and joyful
Far from reality
At last they matter
At last they’re someone

Greasy lipstick marks
On white glass rims
The witch rides her broomstick
Real life terrifies them
More than any mask would

Imported holidays
Contagion by adverts
Witches and zombies
A new dress code
Candle flickers inside the pumpkin
Hollywood is coming
Bringing us bliss

LJETNA – SUMMER SONG

Windless day in the city
The air sizzles and
Burning asphalt fills my nostrils
As I watch the air-con adverts
We’re left completely alone
No salt water to be found here
Hot concrete wets my skin
Not much left to do but
Make babies
It never goes out of fashion

Everyone’s gone to party on the coast!

Music playing from their laptops
Pinball rhythm pulses furiously
And while the DJ’s playing with himself
The crowd gets relaxed
I don’t want any part of it
I ain’t going anywhere
My belt tightens from expenses
And I don’t have the time

Summer scorchers are my favourite
You can fit an entire city in a bar
Criss-cross it in no time
As you walk the deserted streets
No one left to issue fines
Urbanites want to sort their lives out
Vacationing on credit is all the rage

They’ve all gone to the sea to have a good time!

No one’s strutting down the promenade
Other trends are on display
On Majorca or on Vis
Booby snapshots are on offer
And as the seagull is descending
Bashing his beak against the paved-over beach
Back in the city
My legs are getting tanned
I’m stroking my chin
This city is my haven
And I’m staying in

Everyone’s gone to party on the coast!

Music playing from their laptops
Pinball rhythm pulses madly
And while the DJ’s playing with himself
The crowd gets relaxed
I don’t want any part of it
I ain’t going anywhere
My belt tightens from expenses
And I can’t spare the time

DUGE NOĆI – ENDLESS NIGHTS

Been out all night again
Came back wasted
My mind is blank
As I’m drifting toward sleep
Guilt gnaws at me as if was
Squatting in the bushes
My life is racing
Towards the black hole of remembrance

A bag of take-out next to me
Doesn’t jog my memory
The heating is on
But I’m still fully clothed

How many endless nights must pass
Before the dawn arrives
How many endless nights must pass
Before my dreams are drowned

Forgive me, I’d like to be on my own
I’m hollow
Got nothing to give you
I don’t want to hear
The truth I know so well
Fate is a myth
My flaws are all my own

How many endless nights must pass
Before the dawn arrives
How many endless nights must pass
Before my dreams are drowned

GLE! – LOOK!

Like a vicar on the sex line
Raver blitzed on scooby snacks
Copper armed with entitlement
Or a duke with his estates
That’s how I feel with you

You are all I shouldn’t dare
But I’ve always pined for it
And if i didn’t you kept trying
Every day you make me crave you
That’s how I feel with you

Look it’s dawning
The birth of a new day
And so look it’s dawning
You’re waking next to me

Shaman standing next to the totem pole
Your mother fidgets restlessly
Needle pointing fine tapestry
For solutions she has riddles
As if wicked for a reason
She says: that name, it isn’t ours

Flying on a broomstick
To satisfy an itch
She bears down on you and me
Loves tormenting other people
Sightless man learning to read
Relentlessly she pounced on us
From the start of the first round

Look it’s dawning
The birth of a new day
And so look it’s dawning
You’re waking next to me

We’re basking in the Garden of Eden
But the door remains slammed shut
As if I cared
Fire breathing dragons
Only roam in fairytales
The flames are snuffed out
Just as easily as they begin

We own a patch of the seventh heaven
And we don’t need anyone
The stars are looking after us
Put us on trial if you don’t like it
That’s how I feel with you

We climb and then we fall
And each day it gets a little better
And so we fall and then we climb
Our fervour carries us

Look it’s dawning
The birth of a new day
And so look it’s dawning
You’re waking next to me

KER – UNDERDOG

Through all his days and all his nights
He lies in his room staring at shadows
They lure him and coax him
Sweet-talking softly
They guide and entice
Beguile and cajole him
Loans are in vogue and never costly
The time is now to spend and spend vastly

He reads the paper and watches TV
Life is a matrix, media knows all
He grasps his latest iPhone
While his fridge is empty
He lives like a dog, desvalido or opprimé
No matter where
It’s all the same

Hordes of the hollow
In search of the soul food
GMO masses from TV screens
Fed by stupidity
And then atrocity
Who owes what to whom

You are the vampires
Contagious through ether
And when you fade away
I won’t be lighting a candle

Soldiers bearing rainbow-coloured flags
On the second channel
Armies march on while the bands play on
And while the crude blackens the blue sea
The hangman is up bright and early

Banksters stoking panic
Across the border the arch-fiends are peeking
You slang rings true
The nightmares are real too

Todays as yesterdays and
Yesterdays as tommorows
The machine is tugging, it wants you within it
The borders are trivial, tradition irrelevant
Zombies only follow the scent of consumerism

30-year sentence in debtor’s enslavement
When your flat is repaid
The bone yard awaits you
Foreigner in your own home
While a new banker drools at your threshold

He reads the paper and watches TV
Life is a matrix, media knows all
He grasps his latest iPhone
While his fridge is empty
He lives like a dog, desvalido or opprimé
No matter where
It’s all the same

ŽIVIM SA NJIMA ! – LIVING WITH THEM

I grew up long ago
Reality smacked me in the head
I know full well who’s in the wrong
And who’s in the right!

I know this funny character
Mayor Hiccup the super hero
Out in public he’s the man
All fake smiles and pretence

Folks are grinning, feeling blessed
Empty-stomached but sovereign
Flags in hands, waving proudly
All eating meatless broth

And me, I live with them all
The tides of life keep tugging at me
Rise and fall, ebb and flow, undulate

I drive alone at night
Avoiding sewer holes
Pulsating beats coming
From cars around me
The wail of the song
Shrieking passengers
Folk music bedlam
Loony bin bound

And me, I live with them all
The tides of life keep tugging at me
Rise and fall, ebb and flow, undulate

Every day I watch the mob
Fledgling roughnecks on the prowl
Victim hunting, turf wars brewing
A wild pack out to
Rough up a poor soul from a different city

And me, I live with them all
The tides of life keep tugging at me
Rise and fall, ebb and flow, undulate

MAŠINA – IN THE MACHINE

Plump- torsoed, rosy-cheeked
Leaning on the bar
My peers marvel at me
Many of them happily divorced
With clouded perceptions
And stifled voices
Toiling hard then drinking harder
Alive but not living

Decent folk
Devoured by the system
It worries me, so much drooling
In the machine since long ago
Virtuous men
It brings me dismay as
My mates are withering away

Crestfallen and disheartened
Their best days are behind them
Lousy fathers praising fatherhood
To live they never knew how
With clouded perceptions
And stifled voices
Toiling hard then drinking harder
Alive but not living

And me
I follow my own path of course
And will press on as long as I can
And they marvel at it
And they tremble
When freedom is in their sights

Decent folk
Devoured by the system
It worries me, so much drooling
In the machine since long ago
Virtuous men
It brings me dismay as
My mates are withering away

PRIJE JE BILO SVEGA – WE USED TO HAVE IT ALL

The sun is shining, birds are flying
Smiling toddler runs playfully
No trouble on the horizon

Joy and happiness on everyone’s faces
As if something’s being given away
Have you seen it?
Folks are dancing the day away
Pretty babes strolling down the lane
And what used to be
The answer makes me chuckle
The truth is over the hills
We used to have it all

Winners write the history
To win their successors’ sympathy
The dawn always follows the night
We need to keep on living
Empty stories circulating
The silent truths
And screaming lies
The worm peeks out of the apple
Ripened fruit decays quickly

And what used to be
The answer makes me chuckle
The truth is found over the hill
We used to have it all

They say snake hides its legs
The wars are fought in times of peace

And what used to be
The answer makes me chuckle
The truth is found over the hill
We used to have it all