Nemoj bojat se [English translation]

Milić on Yutel^

My old man opened up a bottle

He tried out the armchair

He said, "Again these sirs and Slovenes

And now ours too."

I was a scared little kid

I believed my dad when he said

"Don't worry

The world won't sell us out

It won't happen like that

Everyone knows that the JNA^^ is protecting us

We are the children of Yugoslavia

Don't worry, believe me."

Alright, ok, various holidays passed

And the neighborhood lay empty

The smart ones sold their houses

Us kids played klicker

________________ (?)

Žuće's aunt came from Vukovar to stay with them

She said her husband was killed with two bullets

Right in front of her eyes

My old man stopped sleeping at night

He just sat in the armchair and thought

He didn't think that we should run away

"Not us, it's won't happen to us"

We comforted each other at home

My mom worried and said

"Don't worry, son.

Tomorrow we are going to a wedding

At your uncle's place

Tomorrow Mahir will marry

Our dear Alma"

"Ok, I won't worry mama."

(sound of bombs)

That's that, do you understand, ____ (?)^^^

That's how they talk here in Zagreb

I became a Zagrebian

For an indefinite amount of time

I fit in with everything in Zagreb

When I have problems, I go to the Sava river

But it's hard to forget the memories in your head

Since I heard about the Dayton Peace Accords

I think in front of a concrete house

I remember my old man with a cigarette

It is hard without parents, this will be the fourth summer

And it's weird to go to the country

with all these f***ing entities (?)

It's weird when you are no longerr a refugee

When you walk through town

And you don't know anyone

Only strangers, and all are Bosnians

Armed Americans on the streets

Every thing is the same, actually nothing is the same

And mom and dad

are much skinnier than before

Dad drinks and says "pour us two"

While a second is being poured (?)

I see the tears in his eyes as he says

"Son, I'm f***ing sick of this

But you can still see that there must be some God

Yeah, this Swiss thing is gonna work, it will be a land of dreams

Everything will work out now that the government is new"

_______________ (?)

My brother said from the other room

"Edo, you can decide Australia or Canada

I'm motivated

There is no hope at all here

Just nepotism, (?), and illegal things

Let's leave together

So that we kids can get fat"

I said "Sorry bro, but I'm going to stay

When I can get them, black pills rock me

I drink home-made wine

It's really nice there

But here when I'm scared

I'll at least have someone to cry with"

Don't worry

My dear child

When you hear footsteps

My dear child

Don't cry

Everything, everything is going to be ok

Be strong for me and _____ (?)

^Yutel was a Yugoslav news TV show presented by Goran Milić that ran from October 1990 till May 1992

^^Yugoslav army that was later controlled by Serb forces

^^^These are examples of the dialect in Zagreb