Now all is done
and they've come
to lead you on
show you the way
where before you
a soldier awaiting
The face unfamiliar
the shots unknowing

Your eyes now seeking
the one face, the one chance
Hope gone to dust
all in cool denial
Cold shoulder
and eyes firmly shut

Beg for reason
and mercy perchance
But in vain - too late
Now your tale is told

They came
they said: "this way"

In seconds brief
very skilfully
chilling the shame

No error
No failing
No mistake

(1986)

Wir sind ein Fehler
Tag ein tag aus fuhren mich
immer neue (unbekannte) Amateure
in die Vergangenheit
in die Venen, in Ohnmacht und Unordnung
In die Masse und das Hirn
ohne Zeugen und ohne Papiere

Wir sind ein Fehler
Und wir sind entfernt voneinander
(Vielleicht zweihundert bis dreihundert Meter)

Aber trotzdem gedenke ich eine
SCHleuder zu besteln
Mit ihr zu SCHießen
Auf den Kopf, das Hirn, die Lungen, die Lebes

Und noch SCHlimmer
Dich zu verlassen
auf vierzig Meilen
bis zum ersten, zum dritten, zum funften neuen Tag,
Stadt,
Ohne Wasser und ohne Brot
Ohne beendeter GrundSCHule
mit vielen harten Worten
dem Jungen und beSCHissenen

(1986)

Hold that runner
He draws a suspicious load
carrying bursting balls
in his saddle bags

Hold his silly wife
she is not what she used to be
She's holding plastic knives
storming around, hunting down

They have a sonny boy
Who has a faulty brain
Who has bursting balls
He started off with plastic knives

Sonny operates in company
They started in their
neighbourhood
They saw the world running low
Running low of fear now

(1986)

Caught your eye with my wooden leg
You pledged your life to understand
but could you ever?
Silent horror grips me
As I make a stand
with ankles in line
with one base of wood
This the limit of my powers
This the frame that I once was
a hollow void now clear to all
of my own device
with my wooden leg

(1984)

It's midnight,
there is no place for me to go
Except to be on your trail
Quiet is the street, maybe you're not afraid
Being under favour of the law
Everybody takes your side
But you inevitably know I'm a dog
Not willing to give up any useful matter
I wait only for you to make a false step

(1987)

A new day clears the mist
Rest at last
You are dead, battered
I am
sorrowful, empty
THE CANTONAL WAR GOES ON

Another two, three, five
Passed us by
Screaming with hunters greed
Remember
He'd only heard that scream once before
The day they'd sent him down
(on assignment)

He shivered, hidden behind the door heavy and still
They came in couples as usual
half naked, masked, bruised, ready.
The sweat chased colours down his face

YET

He didn't fear them then
He was young, confident, defiant
Carried away, full of action

NOW all this is wearing us out, eating us
We'd hoped for strength in our lives,
to live human
In line
In war
We thought:
when that day comes
when our goal is reached
we'll rest
change our lives
see the other free corners

BUT NOW
for too long, this has been going on
BUT NOW
far too long, no one is dying
BUT NOW
far too long, we are living

LIKE VAGABONDS

(1988)

Baying cur - gorging dung
Prick up your ears - a change will come
Hunting season - opening hour
Ram it up yours - hats off mister
Stalin croaks - and then Hoxha
Never more - hats off mister

You are on my mind - the cold gun in hand
The winding road - uncovered by night
The southern boroughs - the dead zone
A fair & easy game - up on the balcony

Making your way - whisper my name
Find some courage - and hold me close
A slice of your pecker
Wrapped in a daily
Adorned with flowers
Make a loved one happy

(1986)

We've learnt to forget so easily
Like never before, like never before
(and) You
take me to the fields
remove me with one shot
don't let me forget
Kill me and never
never let me forget
that it's HE
that he's GOD
that he's WILL
that he's POWER
that he's ONE
that he's POWER
that he's WILL
that he's PRAYER

that I desire him
that I want him
that I give him all I can
that the LAND IS STRONG
that our love for him is eternal

(1988)

Early in the morning, I hit the old road
It's you and only you I long to see
my God
Then the memories come flooding in
in you & me and how it should have been

Early morning, so won't you spare me
the proletarian song
Spare me the chance that I may see the
sheltered sky, painted blue

We'll always be together

We'll be together when they impale us

When they cram us, when they spill us,

When we're no more - disappeared

And then, I know, you'll give me all
your love
And then, you'll give it all

Early morning, I hit the old road
It's you and only you I long to see
My Lord

Your great idea will come true
there's simply nothing anyone can do

Farewell

(1988)

Let me tell you of my master
He is everything to me
He's always been the same
He's (always) been everything

Don't lie to your master
He is everything to you
He gives you all you need
He's always been everything

Give your hand to the master
You are everything to him
He offers You for freedom
You are everything to him

(1988)

The ruling party - looks after us
The ruling party - eulogies
OUR PARTY
- the only one

The ruling party - the purest soul
The ruling party - the radiant mind
OUR PARTY
- eternal

But I
I wouldn't run, not in the worst of times
I stood waiting, awaiting,
believing
Thinking,
I'll defend myself
for
I was not her only child

in yellow

in blue

in black

OUR PARTY

(1988)

With evil faces
Special forces
they came to destroy us
Strange race, evil race
They had the sign
The sign of crime

Their leader
was a beauty
She had the sign
The sign of crime

She was the leader
Brutal treatment
She died
45

She spoke:
We are the race
The white race
Crowned race

We have to die
for our master
for our strife
For triumph

First fight
First ride
First shot
She died

She was the queen
Bad seed
She was burnt
At the stake

It was a happy day
in the life of the world

That's the day

WHEN I WAS BORN

(1988)

IN THE SHADOW

People

IN THE SHADOW

Victory and worry

IN THE SHADOW

you and I

Faith and anger

and

Law

(1988)

I hate you
your marriage
your darkness
your hungry children
your way, that way
The Bosnian way
the fall, the fall, the end
(I feel that end)
People, woman, birds
aren't like they used to be
those people, those woman
children, brothers
Brothers
your sign, your dream,
your day

FUCK YOUR DAY

(1988)

I've known you for sometime now sir
And it's not easy
And I'm not sorry
Sometimes I can remember how
upon our father's shoulders
we used to see you
In your black cars
In the days of fallies and fireworks
Those were the days
Then - I could easily cry
And now (still)
when a match is on
Something grips me
And brings back those days (times)
collective SCH
General (public) daze (drunkenness)
And I say Onward you blues

Hell!
I never liked you
Never had anything in common with you
You were never my brother
And that's why

Hitler will rot
I will rot
Stalin will rot
You will rot
The bitch will rot
And so will the ass
Shaban will rot

SHABAN DELMAS

(1988)

The space around us closing in

Drawing us together

Slowly I turned around

Pulled out my device

And you were no more

(1988)

Our fires will burn brighter
the dawn

Our children will sing louder
today

Our youth will gift itself
tonight

Phallus Dei

One day (once)
I will blow out that flame

Some other time
I'll listen to a much clearer silence

For the last time
Our youth will give itself.

Phallus Dei

(1987)

The last of summer - now sadness looms
The shorter days foretell the doom
Sarajevo a sinking town
Dull & sepia, autumn bound

Mock punctuality hails the train
Herds of students flocking in
Garments reek of Sunday best
Ruffians follow in their steps

With them the fabrics of their ways
The stench and dirt that marked their days
Layers of a canker world
Glory to the provincial strain

Close and distant cousins gross
this very being they propose
with perfect reasons they suppose
they'll claim the town for their own

Soon over her preamble word
she almost gets the biggest O
Idioms close to idiocy
Bring her close to ecstasy

The hall resounding with applause
the legs too weak to keep the pose
Bending over, bowing down
she says: Come on, y'all, fuck me now!

Her sycophantic words insulting
Her every move vulgar, affronting
the twisted painted face revolting
Nausea her very essence

Ugly pictures on the screen
the dullest grey domineering
Your bovine face the stimulation
drawing sickening fascination

ref.
But we've seen it, seen it, seen it all
Your mean aims and servile ways
Sussed you out right from day one
Piss off to where you once belonged

CATTLE BREEDING IS YOUR
BUSINESS
THAT'S THE BEST FOR BOTH SIDES

(1985)

A long time already disorder
has been devouring my dreams, hopes
Any time I cast a glance
At small groups of the headless
Playing a game of survival

Fall down - get up

Somebody says it's revolution
Oh God, it isn't revolution, chaos it is
Chaos that divides us (from anger)
Chaos that establishes us, makes malicious
Out of spite toward fear

It really seems to me now
Soon we'll all die together
Bearing a huge stone in our entrails
Too, too early, even before
We succeeded to make progress and greet
The genesis of civilisation

Quite possibly our question could be then
Why must just my birth fill the hole of
the universe
On the filthy day
Of the filthy time of our savagery
Our barbarity

(1990)

For a destroyed dream
For a blink of (my) eye
I'm ready to do my worst
to you and yours

Aware of that
You keep me in sight
so rude, a bore
You can't discern the detail

OK
I know you didn't forget me
I see, I'm loosing you
you hate me, circle around me
stab me in the back
You'd like to play
to be happy
Alone, of course (that just isn't done)

Neither did I
Get used to play (fool) with people
playing with games
playing with money
playing with people
games
heads
and
money

(1990)

Everything was quite in order
The day we had met each other again
We caressed, made love
Wandered (together)
Through the depths of our souls
So serious when we suffered
From our little enchantments
So frivolous when we thought
About ourselves
About new conditions
Then, suddenly
He came
Mastered our souls
Shitted on our lives
Disgusted our sea to us
And disappeared

We stayed on insulted, pissed off
Without hope in better life to come

(1990)

I'll get bad boys together
we'll form a party
So powerful as an army
To abolish the anarchy

Raising barricades in the bush
The long siege we'll push
Our allies will be found
To beat the enemy all around

The state of war we'll introduce
the reign of terror and fear we'll produce
Razzias frequent we'll make
Only for the nation's sake

Our flags will flutter high
Our songs will echo in distant cry
On the wings of victory we'll fly
Flame will burn to the sky

(1990)

Actually
I never did love you,
my darling
(I never felt you)
The feeling is alien to me.
Same as it ever was
I would wonder, how foolish it would be
not to have you, to lose you, tear it all up
(and simply forget you)

But if l'll deal with life,
then I can't (and won't) destroy
even one illusion you held of us, and of others
nor trade it for minute oblivion
(we've learnt to forget so readily)
or some wretched delusion
(the lure of the rat race)
I can't, because I won't, because I prize you
Your every sigh, and every quiver

But how faint & distant the mode
Impossible, quite improbable
In the harsh times we now lodge
Our stately days, our lame emotions
You made a sad and homely image
with the insight I acquired, a knowledge not
desired
how you ushered in all those mean things

The world could never have claimed me
or affront my very being with this material
quest

And here I am
Still in my soulless coffin (box)
Audible the unreal voices
of the boys and girls next door
each a tiny little pecker head
who vill make tomorrow's dead
(as some would say: fresh kids) (I say: fuck it)
And I couldn't give a toss
I am the wanted face
I know, life brings out the selfishness and choler
in each and everyone
Mine will bring me no real joy
or inspire any loathing
I'll simply shun the long embrace
I don't want to lose my head
NEIN

(1990)

Your life is something different
you don't know what will happen
We do
We were in the water
The water is cold
We were in the fire
The fire is hot
Not pleasant (it's unpleasant)
Who knows who will survive
Yet I tell you
Water is cold
Fire is hot
It is so hard, almost unbearable
And still here we are
But we are steadily going out
It is time for the others to taste this
fuckin' trial
We paid for our sins
forgetting who we are and
with whom we are

(1993)

I am in you
your sin
I am your sin
Your hand and your brain
Raise your hand
Show me the way
I shall go your way
the way that I'm ordered to go
I'm not afraid of you, because you are
a sinner
And I'm your sin
You shall be burning
Raise your hand
You shall be burning
Raise your hand
because you are mine
Don't be afraid
You certainly know
It only takes one signal
A short signal
And I'll be dead
You got power, that's why they love
you
You have money
That's why they fawn upon you
Even me
I'll obey, I'll do everything
If you tell me
Where my darling lies.

(1994)

Look at her
Is she a doll
Oh, she is so selfish
She lives here with us
Is she free
Free to choose her own way (of life)
Is she stupid
Self-wise
Is she able to get out from herself
to look at herself behind herself
So self-confident
when strutting, posing
In a group or alone
She likes to listen "Bolero", when fucking
FRUSTRATION
Healthy, spherical face
Loosing hair
As many a girl before her she thinks
She wasn't used, utilised
She thinks that
She is the first in the world

* * * * *

Thousands of years, freely, torn off flying
objects are
cruising
across the space, and only sometimes they
crash against
objects
that are in the way.

(1994)

Do you suffer
Don't
Come, take my hand
Take my words
Words of comfort
Relax, I'll be with you
As every other God's creature
You need help
In this world cruel and imperfect
and we too
Remember when we were children
5-35 (55-85)
When we thought that everything was
known
When we were sure that everything we did
was the best
for the country and people.
Oh, we little mean villains
We only repaid to them what they invested
in us
And really we were bastards when we
ignored our Lord, his
order
And he was merciful, allowed us live,
thinking, knowing that
we
shall realize how bad we were

(1994)

Our enemy will be destroyed
will be destroyed because it (simply)
must be so
Because they want it so

Even the very first day it was clear
the day we trod into this well
They said then: We gonna go now
this way
We want to learn to live alone, like wolves
And it will be so until the day
When we'll come back
Strong enough to subjugate you
Or grind you to dust (ashes)

The sign will be made from your dead bodies
we'll dance around a lot
Victorious dance
Vampires dancing
And then, all this well will be ours
And every trace of yours will be wiped out

(12 years after:)

Did they return? (Have they returned?)
No, the way took them deeply into the forest
And only sometimes they were seen hanging
around certain trees with red berries,
with the quivers full of arrows. Shit.

* * * * *

Oh yes, I almost forgot

Then, there was on apparent collision of
ideas in our circle and I remember some of
us really ran into the story that says that
everything depends on the so-called,"first
step", I mean on the choice of the way.

(1994)

(I feel so bad, I am a mutant)
No - sense
I don't feel the circulation of ancient saps
through my outward veins
I do all I can to think as I think about
radiation,
anti-bodies drifting through the plasma.
Noise, that noise. Still, distant, but piercing
yet.
Unbeatable.
Light
Twilight
Sound, light, space closing
It closes my eyes
No, I want to look
Exert to look
I see, I see faintly
Some of them take me, carrying me, carry
me long, far, THEY
These pitiful mutants, swinging me
Asleep
Morning, blue, grey
Night, day
Noise again, horrible
I remember that
Where to go.
Nowhere.
Everywhere is the same after the big WAR.

(1993)