Balkanski Tango [English translation]

This life here’s a dream

a hut by the bankside

with lots of pale lamplight and sorrow too.

too pity; nightmarish dream

dad's an infamous drunk

mom with an iron plank

portraying the grief

He is a self made man.

his finger on the trigger,

a heart full of vigor to reach for the rainbow

boat, trailer; and by twenty and two

all he wished too, that's when he saw her

[Chorus: next 3 verses]

I'm nuts about you baby

but I am too crazy

you're the one I was craving all of my life

be my hon, daisy, together just maybe

we'll spend this cold cash which is rife

Someone has told me

there might not be any tomorrow;

it’s better to try out everything now,

few pennies can make me yours

these cherry lips will be my main course.

I'm nuts about you,

but these here times are crazy,

I'll rein the fear for both of us ,

as long as you kiss me thus,

till the day I will pass.

And she, countryside bloom,

on a night bus from Provence,

miss not even one chance, yet with a good fortune,

enters the scene, dad’s a small-time teach

mom's a worn-out peach, sister's ugly like hell.

He sure was her type;

first night in a two-seater,

the next in a three-seater,

and third one, er, third one ...

Let the world go boom,

when her young don alone

sat her right on the throne,

like a cherry on top.

(Chorus)

One more ill déjà vu

morning damp as a peat hag... professional hitman

unknown perpetrator,

obituary, two full pages apiece

mafia and police grieve both over him.

The balkan tango always ends up on the pavement,

the devil has entered the chalk line and stills

and she is amplying down the street in debasement,

looking for sponsor loaded to the gills

While the clock taps in the

rhythm of walking, counting moments

and while she's eaten by hungry eyes,

like juicy steak to the bone

she murmurs a chorus somewhat known

(Chorus 3rd verse)

• Artist:Đorđe Balašević