Translation of the song Kidanje Veze (Pismo Ocu) artist Edo Maajka

Dragi babo moj voli te sin tvoj

My dear father, your son loves you

Na tebe mislim često svaki dan od kad’ si nest’o

I think about you often, every day since you went missing

Prič’o nam je tetak on je dobio metak

The uncle told us, he took a bullet himself

Da ste se razdvojili ti, on i Sajo

That you, him and Sajo got separated

Onaj dan kad je grad pad’o

On the day when the town fell

Nikad neću zaboravit onaj dan

I'll never forget that day

Kad je Sajo dos’o iz logora

When Sajo came back from the concentration camp

Kad mi je rek’o imaš pozdrav od staroga

When he told me:You old man says hi.

Da ima Boga doš’o bi i on na razmjeni

'If there was a God, he would have come back in an exchange'

Svaki dan je mati od tad govorila meni

Every day mother told me

I tako cijeli rat smo živjeli od razmjene do razmjene

So, we lived the whole war from exchange to exchange

Za sve si mrtav al’ babo nisi i za mene

You're dead to everyone, but not to me

Kod svake organizacije tražio sam informacije

With every organisation I looked for information

Makar bilo šta al’ niko ovdje ne zna ništa

Anything at all, but nobody here knows anything

Molim Boga da lažu kad kažu da si mrtav

I beg God that they're lying when they're say you've died

Al’ i sam znaš kakav je odvratan svijet nas

Buy you know how awful this world is

Prič’o mi je jedan što radi u muriji

Some cop told me

Da je bio zatvoren u logoru u Srbiji

That he was held in a camp in Serbia

I da jedan isti ti kleo se nema s čim nije

And that somebody who looked just like you, he swore on eveything

Bio zatvoren u istom logoru i to baš s njim

Was locked up in the same camp with him

A mati ko mati, mati ko mati babo ona najgore pati

Ah, mum like mum, mun like mum, father she suffers the most

Jedno vrijeme je pila nije znala šta sa sobom da radi

She drank for a while, didn't know what to do with herself

Išla je kod žena što u grah ugledaju

Went to fortune tellers

Pomalo se nadala nadu grahom povećavala

She kept hoping, she kept growing her hope with the fortune tellers

Al’ dobro je, no sikiriki sad je bolje

But she's okay, don't worry, she's better now

Ja sam dobro dijete ona ima tablete i dobre je volje

I'm a good kid, she's god her meds and she's in good mood

(Refren)

(Chorus)

Kad kidam veze pišem pisma i pjesme

When the relationships tear I write letters and poems

Ja ne mogu više gutat a plakat se ne smije

I can't take it any more, but men don't cry

Pa slažem pisma i punim svoje teke

So I put together letters and fill my notebooks

Zajebano pravo nisam ni čovjek ni dijete

Fucked up, really, I'm neither a man nor a child

Dragi moj oče ama dragi moj tata

My dear father, my dear dad

Sjećaš se tako sam te zvao prije rata

Remember, that's what I called you before the war

Dok me jedan bradati nije poč’o zajebavat

Until some bearded dude didn't start to tease me

Ne da mi se objašnjavat al’ ti se s njima ne bi slag’o, garant

I don't want to go into it now, but you wouldn't like them, I guarantee it

Nema veze, sjećaš li se kako sam ti pravio meze

Never mind, remember how I made meza 1 for you?

Sad ga pravim sebi, samo šljiva, znaš da drogu ne bi’

Now I make it for myself, only slivovitz 2, you know I won't get into drugs

Nemoj se bojat nisam peder im’o sam ja ženski

Don't be afraid, I'm not a faggot 3, I had few girls

Znaš i sam da je to kod nas genetski

You know yourself that it's genetics for us

Volio bih otić s tobom na utakmicu, jednom bar

I'd love to see a game with you, at least once

Stara mi je rekla kol’ko voliš fudbal

Mum told me how much you love football

Samo da vidiš ima jedan Salihamidžić

If you only saw, there's this Salihamidžić

Malo mi na tebe slici da vidiš kako po boku pici

Remind me of you a bit, you should see pushing through the wing

Skoro sam se rasplak’o da ti kažem, e ovako

I almost started crying, let me tell you, this is the thing

Mi ti idemo u Australiju tamo je otiš’o skoro svako

We're off to Australia, almost everyone went there

Tetak sredio ono nesto preko IOM-a

Uncle setup something via IOM4

Moramo ići odma stari ovdje je stvarno život koma

We have to go soon, my old man, life here is really bad

Ako te Bog đivog vrati ako te nama donese

If the God returns you alive if he bring you back to us

Nikad ne znaš evo tu ispod, babo i adrese

You never know, here under this is the address

Evo ti telefonski broj on je samo moj

Here's a phone number, it's mine only

Ne brini, ja ću brinuti o staroj

Don't worry, I'll take care of mum

Voli te sin tvoj, babo moj, babo moj

Your son loves you, my dear father, my dear father

(Refren)

(Chorus)

Kad kidam veze pišem pisma i pjesme

When the relationships tear I write letters and poems

Ja ne mogu više gutat a plakat se ne smije

I can't take it any more, but men don't cry

Pa slažem pisma i punim svoje teke

So I put together letters and fill my notebooks

Zajebano pravo nisam ni čovjek ni dijete

Fucked up, really, I'm neither a man nor a child

(Outro)

(Outro)

Ni znan ni lud ni dobar ni grub

Neither known, nor crazy, neither good nor rough

Samo željan pravde dobro doš’o u klub

Only wishing for justice, 'Welcome to the club'

Plaše nas, dijele a nema ničeg

They scare us, divide, but we have nothing

Pa se ne bojim ničeg osim onoga višeg

So I'm afraid of nothing, except the Lord Almighty