Balada o Pišonji i Žugi [English translation]

Pišonja and Žuga remembered well

What Lepi told them that night

"The seaside means party, the seaside means chicks,

The sea is the source of life, right, Moke?"

Moke also said that

Foreign girls fuck really good

And that at the camp in Zaostrog

He had sex with a different one every night

Pišonja and Žuga could listen to them

Whole night long

Pišonja and Žuga's blood

Was seventeen years hot

Pišonja and Žuga

That same night Pišonja and Žuga

Stole a cassette deck from the invalids' home

And right after that also a bus

Of a transport company from Hrid

Pišonja put the bus into gear

On that hot summer night around 10 pm

"And now, to the seaside!"

Yelled Žuga at the top of his voice

Pišonja was driving and smoking tobacco

Žuga loves brunettes, Pišonja loves blondes

"And after the seaside, to the wide world,

Only the brave attain glory

And then, goodbye, shacks at Breka!"

Yelled Žuga and turned up the cassette deck

"You'll get a postcard from the African country Safari

Good-bye, roaches!"

Pišonja and Žuga, two faithful comrades

Taming dangerous curves

Please, watch over them, O, Queen of Speed

The bill blocked the road

Somewhere near Bradina around 23:05 hours

Boogie-woogie was playing in the bus

When he saw the cops at the speed

Of around eighty per hour

Pišonja told Žuga: "Fasten your seat belts, we're taking off!"

A terrible bang cut through the air

Even sparks flew into the dark

People said the next morning, and swore on their mothers

That the exhaust pipe and the rearview mirror were found

Fifty meters away in a ditch

Pišonja and Žuga, two faithful comrades

Taming dangerous curves

Please, watch over them, O, Queen of Speed

While Pišonja was being carried into an ambulance

He saw the Moon above and said

"God, how can some people go up there

And me and Žuga can't even go to the seaside!"

After that he felt unconscious

And he could no longer hear

How for a long, long time, in the sky

The yellow moon laughed

Pišonja and Žuga

• Artist:Zabranjeno pušenje
• Album:Pozdrav iz zemlje Safari (1987)