Translation of the song lyrics Geni Kameni - Thompson, Marko Perković Thompson

Geni Kameni (original)

Čvrsta ruka i po tenje,
Sveta voda i kr tenje.
Budi čovik to je dika,
Budi roda svoga slika.
Ne daj na se, ne daj svoje,
Nemoj tuđe, prokleto je.
Jer 'ko ivot tako prođe,
Ponosan pred Boga dođe.
Gdje god da te ivot nosi,
Uvik mora znati ko si, hej.
Geni, geni kameni,
Vatra gori u meni!
Geni, geni kameni,
Takvi smo mi rođeni!
Uzmi ili ostavi.
Lo a bila četr'es' peta,
Rasula nas preko svijeta.
A sad nova loza raste,
Vratile se doma laste
Plave krvi, bijelog lica
Rađaju se nova dica.
Na kamenu ka' na svili,
Di oduvik mi smo bili

Geni Kameni (translation)

A hand of iron, a yearning half-concealed,
Sacred water, thirst unhealed.
Be a man—such is the glory’s thread,
Be the likeness of your blood, not merely bred.
Guard your soul, yield nothing to the wind,
Covet not what’s foreign—by curse it’s pinned.
For he who lets his days drift like the foam,
Will stand before his God with honor home.
Wherever fate may scatter you or toss,
You must remember always who you are, across.
Stone-blooded genes entwined in me,
A secret fire sears eternally.
Stone-blooded genes—unchanging, proud,
Thus into life we came, unbowed.
Take this, or let it lie unclaimed.
’Twas forty-five—a year of shadow cast,
We scattered, seeds flung by the storm’s blast.
Yet now a vine ascends from shattered earth,
The swallows have returned to the hearth.
Blue veins, pale faces—ancestral spring—
New sons in this old land awakening.
On stone as if on silk, so finely spun,
Where always, from the first, our days have run