When I pass through the old chestnut neighbourhood
On the former border of Zagreb
I feel completely unready
For what I see there

Just how easy disappeared
Old image of things
This colour isn’t mine
Of another one I know the secret

In another yard saw plays
When we are alone
And sail the ships of paper
In some seductive night
Over us sprout  the treetops of chestnuts
Hidden in the dark
And russian military music plays
From televisors

Tr tr tr tr tr tr tr
Trumpet
I’ll buy me a trumpet
I k k k k k k k k
I will go to Kuba

There is no luscious ladies
From giant bilboards
No one is hungry for bread
And there is no democracy

There is rich who has
Time and smoke
There is accepted with heart
And shared with all

There is lot’s of rum
To cast away the doubts


Darko Rundek - Kuba

I seeked  on top of a mountain
Angels of height
To tell me your name

I seeked in the depths of the sea
Long forgotten secret of a tide

And look what I have found
Tumbling heaven and hell
Wild hair, two dark eyes
A flower without roots
Dance is all it knows

Ooo
Who sent you to me
To spoil the business of angels

Eeee 
dis moi qui t’a envoyé
pour empêcher mes anges de travailler


Darko Rundek - Makedo

-Hands-

This morning
You forgot all
That held you together
This day that knocks on the window
Is not yours
Is not yours

Around you things are silent
Your bed and desk silently
Look at you
From the walls hang triffles
Just to roughly 
make you remember
In shadows of times of time
You smell treason
Treaso o o n
Treaso o o n

Well let me play to you
Hands are dying from the silence
And don’t be afraid of the noise
That what plays, those are hands


Darko Rundek - Ruke

-I dream-

I sit alone in the hug of Force
And my wings are ready for a flight
From the other side
Never and nowhere
One light calls me
And the soil
Beneath my feet, so gentle
Looks at me
Waits for me to give up

What doesnt allow me

What doesnt allow me
To go on that trip

What doesnt allow me
What doesnt allow me

And makes me stay

And again I dream
I dream

Come, remember the boy that drinks fog
To hide from himself because he has no one to do it with
Doesnt know how to look at the abyss and fire
And how to listen to that massive sound
That rolls
And hope is getting smaller – and all is a secret

And again he dreams
Dreams


Darko Rundek - Sanjam

-I stand and watch how I exist-

A child looked taunting to the dog while biting an apple
A dog who with misunderstanding turned his head
Not noticing the cat
Who had him in his site for some time
and now with a soft motion over a bent tree
Jumped into the yard

An old man tumbles his newspapers finding the article
He is interested in and he adjusts his glasses

Through the window a sheet flies out  and hands follow it
Of some, maybe young, woman.  Maybe young woman

They turn the volume high in a nearby coffeeshop

You have a white blouse and a black skirt and your hair is tidy
I thought they dont exist anymore. You are invented

Maybe you’re thinking of me
Maybe we weren’t careful enough
Maybe you recieved

A memory of a touch mixes with  the sharp  presence
Of palm branches and a special acoustic brought by
Yellowish air of a warm early sunset  and the smell of plastic
From cheap beach toys that are packed slowly
By daily sellers. It mixes with the touch of a fresh white
T-shirt on a salty skin and sharpened nipples.
With a smell of long-melted ice-cream from uneaten 
Cups and paper from the trash can next to the ice-cream lady in
The upper part of a swimming costume
And with absorbed sun that radiates from skinny bodies
Two messy boys that roam around like stray dogs
In the distance passes a cruiser ship on which
as if a bal is prepared. On which as if a bal is prepared

And I stand and watch me how I exist

Lets take the boat of your old man tonight and go
Paddling towards the trail of moonlight towards the great ship
Cruiser
You, already in an evening dress, I already in a toxedo
You brought your granma’s jewelry
Silently we are sneaking  and climbing on that line that

Binds the anchor to the ship and we mix with the crowd
Upstairs lanterns are lit and champagne is poured and on
The widest deck a mexican band plays that old
Song that gave us chills, my dear
My dear? Aha
We climb the podium, song starts and the dude
With sombrero sings:

 cantando bajo la luna
Yo se que la vida es sueño
El sueno es querer
El sueno es morir

por eso quiero saber
Porque me duelle tanto
Que stas tan lejos

Lejos de mi alma, 
de mi cuerpo
De mi corazon

Si estarias a mi lado
Navegariamos tratranquilos por los sueňos
Mientras la luna en nuestra laguna
No para de reir

And I stand and look how you exist
And you stand and look how I exist

e stoi i me veo exitir


Darko Rundek - Stojim i gledam se kako postojim

-In fight with Forces-

Look how
Clouds are expanding
Over dark mountains
In a fight with Forces

They raise their coats
Look angrily because
Winds are coming
Dark is the summer. All

Run for the cover
Change plans
Up there heavy rains are preparing
Asphalt smells of gunpowder and escape

But the blacks still play
The saints still march
On a deserted square only
The band, wind, you
and I 
Remain

With a safe step
We dance the last dance
While curtain is being lowered
Between earth and sky

Instead of hands, now Lord, give us sails
and instead of legs
let a ship grow
The river moved
Love’s wirpool boils
Between the coast of wonder and sin

In fight with Forces
Shine you and me
While the step is melting
Between soul
and body


Darko Rundek - U borbi sa silama

For a long time like a stranger with a guitar and a dog
I roam from town to town
Free and alone
I know all too well
Of happiness I dont even dream

I listen to the sound of my guitar
Only for pigeons I still care
I dont watch how much money they
Put in my hat

And then next to my hat  you appeared
LI-LI-LI-LI    LA-LA-LA-LA
Some completely new words you spoke
LI-LI-LI-LI    LA-LA-LA-LA
And I still remember  
The shine that gives birth in your eyes
And says Hey
I know who you are

I was at the edge of madness
But destiny made a judgement
To strech out its hand once again

From that beautiful day you stayed with me
LI-LI-LI-LI    LA-LA-LA-LA
Picker of my change you have become
LI-LI-LI-LI    LA-LA-LA-LA
And I still wonder
When I see you collect the money with a light step
What a woman kisses me

I shake off the dirt
I only feel how strong boils the blood
and says Hey
Give
Come


Darko Rundek - Li la

-Russian one-

-“Are you dying?“
-“Yes, I am dying” answered the hawk, with a deep sigh
- “Gloriously I have lived my life! I know happiness! Bravely I fought!
I saw the sky! You will never reach it! Eh, you unfortunate one!”

-“Ah, what is sky? Emtpy place…How to crawl there? It is beautiful here to me…Warm and moist!” 
answered Uzh to the free bird and smiles in his soul over it for spoken insults..
And he goes,  spreads the wings, breathes with full lungs, flashes with eyes and throws himself.

He was falling fast, breaking wings, losing feathers…
Current of the spring embraced him and, washing the blood, coated him in foam, carrying him to sea.

And waves of the sea sorrowfully crashed on rocks…

And the body of a bird got lost in the vastness of the sea
And thinking like this: “Wheter you flew or crawled, the end is certain: All will go in the ground, all will turn to ashes…”

Hawk screamed: “Oh If only once more I rose to the sky! Enemy I would take to woums on my chest
and he would drown in my blood!  Oh, happiness of a battle!”

And Uzh thought and suggested to the free bird:
“And you drag yourself to the edge and throw yourself to the abyss. Maybe the wings lift you and you live a bit in your storm….”

by Maksim Gorki


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