Recitacija [English translation]

Sadness is in the city tonight,

Tonight is ruled by pain

Everyone is calling Him,

But no one knows where God is,

In the city, those few maniacs are laughing

But tonight, the city is crying,

Small snakes emerged

They transformed into throat-cutters,

Dead bodies, big ones

average ones, and even those small ones,

My river is red,

And the Sava River is swallowing them

Although it doesn’t want to,

It is swallowing up those that drank from it,

Those that laughed and loved

While they bathed in it,

The river is tormented,

You can see it in the foam

The river washes ashore,

But it can’t wash ashore

what the snake throws into it,

The clouds come to the river’s aid,

They send rain to rescue it,

For the red pools of blood

To runoff easier.

Even Sava’s siren is grieving

For her children are dead,

She needs a shell to calm down,

She needs some kind of explanation,

She needs air

She is suffocating from grief,

She wants nothing more but to go to the surface,

Even if this means she dies and dries up,

She is calling her servants,

She’s calling Sava’s catfish,

She gives them orders

To prepare human bodies for graves,

For the bodies to be buried

As deep as possible,

And specifically, by the mouth of the Danube

There where the bay is deep,

And so, the catfish drag the bodies,

They invited a big pike fish,

To force other fish off the path,

And the ones that refuse to move

The pike fish swallows them whole,

In the meantime, on the bayou

Following the siren’s command,

The fish have built the tomb

For Sava’s innocent children,

The bodies are buried

It’s Danube’s turn now,

Into the Black Sea

To carry the pools of blood away