Ne daj se Ines [English translation]

Don't give up Ines

Don't give in to years my Ines

to different moves and habits

Because your room is still warm

Cosy setup and rarities

You had better taste than me

Your room splendor

Your landlady in the hospital

You were always distinctive

by the colour of your letters, by the gifts

She walked me, the next morning around nine, to the station

And a green bus chased by autumn wind is going down

Like a leaf down a Belgrade slope

Wearing my evening suit I am surrounded by looks

Don't give up my youth, don't give up Ines

our acquaintance has been prepared for a long time

and then accidentally with hot rakija

and with just a few lines, a wish badly hidden

Your way is ladylike and your cheeks rustic

My bumpkin and my gentlewoman

Then your breasts, bed

And my room hanging in the air like orange

Like an orange lamp under green and blue water of Zagreb

in Proleterskih brigada 39. beside Grković

Wet street further from the window and evening trolleys buzzing

Beautiful moments of nostalgia, love and poverty

Using communal bathroom

and "Please if someone looks for me"

Do not give up Ines

Here I am getting up only to turn the record over

Is that rude at a moment like this

Mozart Requiem Agnus Dei

I still prefer the beginning

I have access to another one million of hers

and naughty data from our youth

That, right there in front of our eyes, deceives us, and robs us, and leaves us

Don't give up Ines

Tear up the invitation, cancel the dinner, cheat on your husband

on your way for a hairdo in some better hotel

Touch me under the table with your knee

My generation, lover

I know that there will still be youths

But not another one like this one - on average 1938

I won't have anyone to stay young with if all of you get old

And that youth will be difficult for me

But in the end you must be right

Because I am on this shore

that you've left and surrendered half-heartedly

And the rain is starting again

the way it rains in November in the islands

Lead sea and pine sky

Distant voices mixing

Voice of friend's mother, daughter, lover, boat, brother

rapidly picked up clothes before the rain

And the light disappeared with the whiteness

A bit more of walking by the sea and that's it

• Artist:Arsen Dedić