Od ljudi za ljudi [English translation]

JOSE

What's wrong with this world that it's so divided

Like if you're not one of us, beware, you'll get beaten up

Why does it matter where you're from or what's your last name

Like if we don't like that, it's better for you to run away

You can hear go home, "go home," or something else

From the people who think they're worth more than you

Who think this world is theirs and they're afraid

Of everything foreign and practice xenophobia

People want a better life, that's why they move

That's how it's always been and how it always will be

Do you know what the skinheads have done to Belina1

If he has to go home, let's call back all the Slovenes living in Argentina2

And elsewhere, so they come back under the Triglav3, where Slovenes live

You see, your logic is flawed

Do you think if you hit someone, you've achieved something

Look, a punch comes back and the situation reverses

Do you really not see that you should accept all people

Just because they're people, exactly like you

We're all born, we all have wants, hopes, we're all afraid

We all have our joys, we all suffer

Why do we live in hatred while time flies by

And in the end we all lose

My crowd isn't divided into ours and others

And I toast with friends from all the ex-Yugo republics4

Remember, it doesn't matter where someone comes from

The only thing that matters is what's going on in his head

That's what determines whether he's out or in

And that's the idea I'd like to hammer into your head like a nail

I know what I'm talking about, born here, living here

Raised here, the son of a Slovene mother

If you want, walk with me behind the words from these verses

Because I'll stand behind them until I'm breathing

CHORUS

This one goes out from the people for the people

No matter where you are, what you are, who you are

This one goes out from the people for the people

For all the people

MURAT

Too much negativity all around me

When I look at the people, all hostile towards each other

Political, religious and racial intolerance

Hatred, hypocrisy and treachery

They carry themselves too high, they think they're the best

You show them respect, but they can't show it back to you

And others are the type to laugh to your face

But when you turn your back, they're already talking about you

Spreading all kinds of lies just to push you down

Into deep shit, they gossip about you

So they make themselves look better, perhaps

But they're getting nervous and their heads hot

They hate everyone around them, but they don't know why

They're in so deep they can't go back

What do they even have from living that way

Other than creating negative energy

For everyone who's ready to do something

Because we fucked up, they're ready to change things

We all make mistakes, let's fix them

Let's try to stop this negativity

CHORUS

This one goes out from the people for the people

No matter where you are, what you are, who you are

This one goes out from the people for the people

For all the people

TOMI

You don't have to be blind and bloody

To stay who you are

I know you need everything you gave to him

But it isn't here

Why would you be scared of anyone

That's born different?

Maybe he'd move mountains for you

Would you shut up then?

You don't have to be blind and bloody

I know you need everything you gave him

Why would you be scared of anyone

Maybe he'd move mountains for you

1. Refers to an incident that happened in 2001 in Ljubljana when two skinheads assaulted a black man (an activist for Amnesty International), whose stage name is Janez Belina.2. A lot of Slovenes migrated to Argentina around World War 2.3. The highest mountain in Slovenia, a national symbol that can be found on Slovenia's coat-of-arms as well.4. Even today there are Slovenes who look down on immigrants from the other former Yugoslav countries.

• Artist:Murat & Jose