Vrbanja Bridge

Intro

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Oh-oh

Talk to me now

Verse 1

Now I was born in a town where the minarets and the church bells shared the same sky

My neighbor was a Serb

My barber was a Croat

We drank our rakija and never asked each other why

I lived in a peaceful country where nations were as one

Till some greedy men decided that our unity was done

They carved us up with maps and hate and cameras rolling live

And told us all that strangers were the reason to survive

Chorus

We were twenty-five and so full of life

Twenty-five and I called you my wife

Who would have thought we would die so soon

Because of some dirty nationalist hater

Yeah some dirty nationalist hater

Verse 2

Now I remember walking you across the Vrbanja Bridge

You wore my jacket and your hair fell down like rain

You laughed and said the whole world is a village

And I said girl you are the only village in my brain

A bullet found me first and laid me on the concrete cold

You ran to me and held me as my body lost its hold

And moments later you went down and fell right next to me

Two hearts that beat as one now still as any stone could be

Chorus

We were twenty-five and so full of life

Twenty-five and I called you my wife

Who would have thought we would die so soon

Because of some dirty nationalist hater

Yeah some dirty nationalist hater

Bridge

Our drops of blood still dripping down

On that Vrbanja Bridge

Melted together in death

Melted together in death

Just like we were in life

Just like we were in life

Verse 3

Now I am just a story that the older people tell

A mixed-up boy and a mixed-up girl who loved each other well

Our names are on no monument

Our kids were never born

But every time two people cross that bridge they keep our morning warm

So do not tell me nations cannot live as neighbors here

Do not tell me love is weaker than a rifle or a tear

I was twenty-five and you were twenty-five and we were not afraid

We only wanted one small life and look what hatred made

Chorus

We were twenty-five and so full of life

Twenty-five and I called you my wife

Who would have thought we would die so soon

Because of some dirty nationalist hater

Yeah some dirty nationalist hater

Outro

Melted together

Melted together

In death like in life

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