Translation of the song lyrics Gazela - Arsen Dedic

Gazela (original)

Ovdje se radi o pravoj pravcatoj
Premda malo nejasnoj gazeli
Životinji iz mojih ljepših snova
Što mi priprostu dušu veseli
Tražeci u sebi više nego imam
U najtamnije zakutke duše sam virnuo
Sve sam u sebi već klasificirao
Ali gazelu nisam dodirnuo
Nestalna gazela što se prelijeva nestaje
U neke boje pustinjskoga pijeska
Pretvara pustare moje u vedra jezera
U kojima joj se ljupka slika ljeska
Katkad tek učtivo počiva u mojoj utrobi
Nedokučiva ko nerođeno dijete
Katkada tumara lelujava prikaza
Po tumorima moje mrzovolje i sjete
Kada se zateknem u umornoj stanci
Kad nigdje više ništa ne očekujem
Čujem blagi topot njenih krhkih nogu
Ko golem bubanj pod njima odjekujem
U vitkom galopu mi jezdi kroz dušu
I duša moja je ko opita
Ko iskrena bludnica duša mi se otvara
Dodiru tih gracioznih kopita
Odakle tako egzotično živinče
U mojoj pitomoj dušici
Ko da se kakva blistava princeza
Nastanila u potleušici
Može li njeno prisustvo pretvoriti
Ovo jadno tijelo u raskošnu palaču?
Ja živim u neprestanom strahu —
Njenu čistoću okaljat ću
I bojim se da neću shvatiti što znači
Njen ljupki zov u ovom strašnom vremenu
Da će mi pobjeći prije nego nađem
Alkemijski put k njenom otmjenom plemenu
Imam tu gazelu, ah, kakvu gazelu
Negdje u tijelu, u truloj ljusci
Ali preobrazbe alkemijske nema
I lik moj ostaje ljudski

Gazela (translation)

This is the real thing
Although a little vague gazelle
The animals of my better dreams
Which makes my simple soul happy
Seeking more in myself than I have
I peered into the darkest corners of my soul
I have already classified everything in myself
But I didn't touch the gazelle
The erratic gazelle that overflows disappears
In some colors of desert sand
It turns my wastelands into clear lakes
In which her lovely image is hazel
Sometimes it just politely rests in my gut
Incomprehensible as an unborn child
Sometimes wandering swings display
By the tumors of my grumpiness and sadness
When I find myself in a tired pause
When I don't expect anything anywhere else
I hear the gentle thud of her fragile legs
I echo like a huge drum under them
In a slender gallop it rides through my soul
And my soul is like a drunkard
Like a sincere prostitute, my soul opens
They touch those graceful hooves
Where did such an exotic animal come from
In my sweet darling
Like a dazzling princess
It settled in the subsoil
Can her presence transform
This poor body in a lavish palace?
I live in constant fear -
I will defile her purity
And I'm afraid I won't understand what it means
Her lovely call in this terrible time
That he would run away from me before I found him
An alchemical path to her noble tribe
I have that gazelle, ah, what a gazelle
Somewhere in the body, in a rotten shell
But there is no alchemical transformation
And my character remains human