This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Над вечерним Дунаем разносится
Белый цвет, белый цвет, белый цвет.
И на память мелодия просится,
Прошлых лет, Прошлых лет, Прошлых лет...
Но расстаяли птичьими стаями,
Нашей песни простые слова.
Ты уходишь в огонь Югославия!
Без меня! Без меня! Без меня!
За ночь под свинцовым градом,
За то что меня нет рядом,
Ты прости сестра моя - Югославия!
За смерть под дождем весенним,
За то что не стал спасением!
Ты прости сестра моя - Югославия!
Черноглазой девчонкой растерянной,
Ты стоишь на другом берегу.
Но добраться до этого берега
Не могу, не могу, не могу.
Над вечерним Дунаем разносится
Белый цвет, белый цвет, белый цвет.
И на память мелодия просится,
Прошлых лет, Прошлых лет, Прошлых лет...
За ночь под свинцовым градом,
За то что меня нет рядом,
Ты прости сестра моя - Югославия!
За смерть под дождем весенним,
За то что не стал спасением!
Ты прости сестра моя - Югославия!
Nad vechernim Dunaem raznositsya
Belyi tsvet, belyi tsvet, belyi tsvet
I na pamyat melodiya prositsya
Proshyh let, proshyh let, proshyh let...
No rasstayali ptichimi stayami
Nashei pesni prostyye slova
Ty uhodish v ogon Yugoslavia!
Bez menya! Bez menya! Bez menya!
Za noch pod svintsovym gradom,
Za to chto menya net ryadom,
Ty prosti sestra moya - Yugoslavia!
Za smert pod dojdem vesennim,
Za to chto ne stal spaseniyem!
Ty prosti sestra moya - Yugoslavia!
Chernoglazoi devchonkoi rasteryannoi,
Ty stoish na drugom beregu.
No dobratsya do etogo berega
Ne mogu, ne mogu, ne mogu.
Nad vechernim Dunaem raznositsya
Belyi tsvet, belyi tsvet, belyi tsvet
I na pamyat melodiya prositsya
Proshyh let, proshyh let, proshyh let...
Za noch pod svintsovym gradom,
Za to chto menya net ryadom,
Ty prosti sestra moya - Yugoslavia!
Za smert pod dojdem vesennim,
Za to chto ne stal spaseniyem!
Ty prosti sestra moya - Yugoslavia!
Белый цвет, белый цвет, белый цвет.
И на память мелодия просится,
Прошлых лет, Прошлых лет, Прошлых лет...
Но расстаяли птичьими стаями,
Нашей песни простые слова.
Ты уходишь в огонь Югославия!
Без меня! Без меня! Без меня!
За ночь под свинцовым градом,
За то что меня нет рядом,
Ты прости сестра моя - Югославия!
За смерть под дождем весенним,
За то что не стал спасением!
Ты прости сестра моя - Югославия!
Черноглазой девчонкой растерянной,
Ты стоишь на другом берегу.
Но добраться до этого берега
Не могу, не могу, не могу.
Над вечерним Дунаем разносится
Белый цвет, белый цвет, белый цвет.
И на память мелодия просится,
Прошлых лет, Прошлых лет, Прошлых лет...
За ночь под свинцовым градом,
За то что меня нет рядом,
Ты прости сестра моя - Югославия!
За смерть под дождем весенним,
За то что не стал спасением!
Ты прости сестра моя - Югославия!
Nad vechernim Dunaem raznositsya
Belyi tsvet, belyi tsvet, belyi tsvet
I na pamyat melodiya prositsya
Proshyh let, proshyh let, proshyh let...
No rasstayali ptichimi stayami
Nashei pesni prostyye slova
Ty uhodish v ogon Yugoslavia!
Bez menya! Bez menya! Bez menya!
Za noch pod svintsovym gradom,
Za to chto menya net ryadom,
Ty prosti sestra moya - Yugoslavia!
Za smert pod dojdem vesennim,
Za to chto ne stal spaseniyem!
Ty prosti sestra moya - Yugoslavia!
Chernoglazoi devchonkoi rasteryannoi,
Ty stoish na drugom beregu.
No dobratsya do etogo berega
Ne mogu, ne mogu, ne mogu.
Nad vechernim Dunaem raznositsya
Belyi tsvet, belyi tsvet, belyi tsvet
I na pamyat melodiya prositsya
Proshyh let, proshyh let, proshyh let...
Za noch pod svintsovym gradom,
Za to chto menya net ryadom,
Ty prosti sestra moya - Yugoslavia!
Za smert pod dojdem vesennim,
Za to chto ne stal spaseniyem!
Ty prosti sestra moya - Yugoslavia!
Lyrics submitted by Blackandwild1
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A white flower floats on the evening Danube And the melody of the passed years requires the memory But simple lyrics of our song faded away as flocks of birds You leave in the fire, Yugoslavia! Without me! Without me! Without me!
For the night in the rain of leads For that I'm not by you You, forgive me, my sister, Yugoslavia! For the death in the spring rain For that I wasn't helpful to you You, forgive me, my sister, Yugoslavia!
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For the night in the rain of leads For that I'm not by you You, forgive me, my sister, Yugoslavia! For the death in the spring rain For that I wasn't helpful to you You, forgive me, my sister, Yugoslavia!