Beogradski sindikat

 

I can remember when there were only two tv channels,

You’d read about politics and drink coffee,

The news was watched every day at half seven,

And it always showed the same story, the same gang.

Back then it was easy to spread propaganda,

the people believed in the words on the screen,

there was no room to hear the other side,

all up until somewhere over there they decided to change the plan.

Today after the wars, protests and reforms,

democracy, internet and new technology,

the fight for equality and freedom of speech,

after everything, everything is still as it was before.

And still in the government we have liars and marionettes,

they follow their orders and steal everything for themselves,

in vain do we have a thousand channels and social media,

(when) we all bury our heads in our screens and hide from conflict!

The system is lying to you, don’t believe what it tells you,

this life is a battle, from birth to the grave,

so rise up immediately!

From my youth they have lied to me and made me work like a bull,

 They tell me that Jozha sledged in the tub,

 they gave me a scarf, a flag and an oath,

as though friends cannot be sold even for a spoonful of cream.

And asses have dragged themselves into villas in Dedinja,

we are all the same, but pigs still rule us.

So we wanted democracy, we took to the streets,

spent our energy, sucked dicks!

Foreign agents dragged me out like a monkey,

so that I can get drunk on tear gas, so they can fuck up our country.

Now we’re listening to baronies from the mouths of bad actors,

but they aren’t our government, they’re a theatre of dolls.

I know who is lying to me and who is oppressing me,

the banks, MMF, corporations are important.

And the system exists to make them money,

and there will be justice only when this empire falls.

The system is lying to you, don’t believe what it tells you,

this life is a battle, from birth to the grave,

so rise up immediately!

A man believes what he sees, a man believes what he hears,

he does not understand that his mind is being poisoned from birth,

propoganda systems, whatever the system might be called,

tabloids, television, reality tv.

These work to make you lose your identity,

to (make you) just be obedient, rotting mediocracy,

to (make you) take the blame for their wrongs, to taint the pure,

to be angry that you’re blind, that you’ve been made into an ass again.

You drank up their dismissals, these are reforms, they have to happen,

there is no pay, but pay late and they’ll cut off your electricity

so you wait for the bailiffs, the executioners to arrive,

like our ancestors used to wait for the Turks on their wedding night.

But you kept quiet, believed, hoped, voted,

now you can’t believe how you have ended up at the bottom,

that’s why you need to pull away on time, when you’re hurting say it out loud,

You don’t owe that to the bank, but your hungry children.

 

The system is lying to you, don’t believe what it tells you,

this life is a battle, from birth to the grave,

so rise up immediately!