Modra rijeka | Stone Sleeper | Mak Dizdar tribute

Modra rijeka
Mak Dizdar

Nikto ne zna gdje je ona
malo znamo al je znano

iza gore iza dola
iza sedam iza osam

i još huđe i još luđe
preko mornih preko gorkih

preko gloga preko drače
preko žege preko stege

iza devet iza deset
i još dublje i još jače

iza šutnje iza tmače
gdje pijetlovi ne pjevaju

gdje se ne zna za glas roga
i još huđe i još luđe

iza uma iza boga
ima jedna modra rijeka

široka je duboka je
sto godina široka je

tisuć ljeta duboka jest
o duljini i ne sanjaj

tma i tmuša neprebolna
ima jedna modra rijeka
ima jedna modra rijeka

valja nama preko rijeke

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The Blue River
Mak Dizdar

No one knows where it is.
We know little, but we know this:

beyond the hill, beyond the valley,
beyond seven, beyond eight,

and still farther, still madder,
over weary, over bitter,

over thorns, over brambles,
through the burning, through the binding,

beyond nine, beyond ten,
and still deeper, still stronger,

beyond silence, beyond darkness,
where roosters do not crow,

where the horn’s call is unknown,
and still farther, still madder,

beyond the mind, beyond God
there is a blue river.

It is wide, it is deep.
A hundred years wide it is,

a thousand summers deep it is.
Of its length - do not even dream.

A darkness and a shadow beyond healing.
There is a blue river.

There is a blue river -
and we must cross it.

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Original music composed by O.G. (2003). Remaster (2025).
"Kameni Spavač": a tribute album to Mak Dizdar.


© 2025 Stone Sleeper
Texts by Mak Dizdar
Music by O.G.
Released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...



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