What Song Are You Listening To? Part 4 (Page 3)

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And now for something completely different (below) 😄
Found the lyrics translated to English , and it's a pretty good translation so I figured hey why not. It's basically a Yugoslav poem recited to music by Rade Serbedzija....

(either you know him as Gregorovitch in "Harry Potter" och Dr. Milich in "Eyes Wide Shut"....or Homeless Man in "Batman Begins", lol)
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Don't give in Ines
Don't give in to the years my Ines
to different ways and habits
Because your room is still warm
pleasant arrangement with rare items
You had more taste than me
your room, splendour
Your landlady away in the hospital

You always distinguished yourself
by the colored paper of your letters, by the gifts
You walked me the next morning around nine to the station
Tumbling down the hill, a green bus blown by the autumn wind
like a leaf down a Belgrade street
I'm in my evening suit and besieged by stares
Don't give in, my youth
Don't give in, Ines

For a long time our acquaintance was prepared
and then all of a sudden with hot brandy
and with merely a couple of sentences, a badly disguised desire
Your ways of a lady and cheeks of a country girl
peasant, gentlewoman
Then your breast, your bed
and my room suspended in the air like an orange
like an orange light over the green and indigo blue waters of Zagreb
street of Proleteriat brigades 39. KOD Grkovic
The rain washed the street far from the window, and the hum of night tramways
beautiful moments of nostalgia, love and powerty
use of common facilities
and "please, if someone should ask for me"
Don't give in Ines

Here I am getting up only to turn over the record
Is it perhaps improper in a moment like this?
Mozart Requiem Agnus Dei
the begining is still my favorite
I have at my disposal yet a million sweet
and indecent moments of our youth
that cheats us before our very eyes, robs and abandons us
Don't give in Ines

Tear up the invitation, cancel the dinner, cheat on your husband
comb your hair in some fancy hotel
touch my knee under the table
my generation, my lover

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........

I know there will be other youths
but not like ours, on average 1938
I'll have no one to stay young with
if all of you grow old
and that youth will become hard on me
But I suppose you were right after all
for here I am on this shore that you've abandoned
and surrendered without a fight
And there it starts to rain again
as it rains in November here on the islands
The sea of lead and sky of pine trees
distant voices that blend together
voices of my mother, friends, my daughter, lover, a ship and a brother
Hastily gathered laundry before the rain
light that faded with that whiteness
few more walks along the shore and it's over
Don't give in Ines