Translation of the song lyrics Uspavanka za dečaka - Đorđe Balašević

Uspavanka za dečaka (original)

Pričaće ti jednom možda
Kako sam ja bio štošta
Pile moje, pače moje malo
Mudrovaće badavani
Kad me nema da se branim
Da sam blizu ne bi im se dalo
Pričaće ti o plovidbi
Ti što nisu sidro digli
Šta sam za njih neg' ukleta šajka
Tvrdiće sa čudnim sjajem
Da sam drhtao pred zmajem
Videli su oni, iz prikrajka
Al' ti slutiš otkud bore
Trunje se u oku diglo
Olujno je tamo gore
Gde nas nije puno stiglo
Znam da sanjaš more sveća
I korake po tom doku
Ti si tamo bio u mom oku
Pričaće ti, kojekakvi
Zloba se k’o rubin cakli
Kako odjek moga osmeha ječi
I kleće se u pretpostavke
Kljuckajući kao čavke
Moje loše prepričane reči
Brojao sam ljude s Krsta
Pravila i izuzetke
Posvud` promašena vrsta
Samo retki nađu retke
Znam da sanjaš Vaskrsenje
Jednu siluetu plahu
Ti si tamo bio, u mom dahu
Pričaće ti jednom svašta
Boljima se teško prašta
Pile moje, pače moje malo
I silni miševi u boci
Javiće se k’o svedoci
Pustolovnog traganja za Gralom
Ne znam više, Bože prosti
Da l' da strepim
Il' da stremim
Da to breme posebnosti
I na tebe nakalemim
Ako nije kasno već?
Jer znam da sanjaš rimovanja
Krik i tišinu nemu
Ti si bio svugde
U mom' svemu
Pile moje, pače moje malo
Lavče moje…

(translation)

He'll talk to you maybe one day
How I was a lot
My chicken, my little duck
Badavani will be wise
When I'm not going to defend myself
If I was close, they wouldn't be able to
He'll tell you about sailing
Those who did not raise the anchor
What am I to them than a haunted gang
It will claim with a strange luster
That I was trembling before the dragon
They saw it, from the outskirts
But you know where they're fighting
The rot in his eye rose
It's stormy up there
Where not many of us arrived
I know you dream of a sea of ​​candles
And steps on that dock
You were there in my eye
He'll tell you what
Evil is like ruby ​​glaze
Like the echo of my smile
And he swears by assumptions
Pecking like jackdaws
My badly told words
I counted the people from the Cross
Rules and exceptions
Missed species everywhere
Only the rare find the rare
I know you dream of the Resurrection
One silhouette timid
You were there, in my breath
He'll tell you everything one day
It's hard to forgive the better ones
My chicken, my little duck
And strong mice in a bottle
He will appear as a witness
An adventurous search for the Grail
I don't know anymore, God forbid
Should I be afraid
Or to strive
That burden of peculiarities
And I will graft on you
If it's not too late already?
Because I know you dream of rhyming
Shout and silence to him
You've been everywhere
In my 'everything
My chicken, my little duck
My benches…