Zbog nje
Jasar Ahmedovski · Other Songs - Jasar Ahmedovski
neko mi nemirne snove budi
ili je ona, zeljo moja,
dosla iz tuge da me probudi
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Zbog nje sam dane/radost gubio
neznane zene ljubio
pisma citao, pio i skitao
noci zorio, dusu zamorio
Da li to ponoc otkucava
mozda je vetar, dusu mi vara
ili je ona, tugo moja,
vraca se srce da razocara
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Nije ni zora ni vetrovi
vec cudni nemir u mojoj dusi
kako je mogla kule od srece
neverom svojom da porusi
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A restless night haunted by one woman
“Zbog nje” (“Because of Her”) follows a restless man whose life has been shaped by one absent woman. He wonders whether dawn or the wind woke him, then realizes the unease is inside him: he has lost joy, wandered through nights and tried to bury the memory in drink. The final image of happiness’s towers brought down by infidelity gives the song its sense of irreversible damage.
The recording belongs to Jašar Ahmedovski’s extensive Serbian folk repertoire, where his expressive vocal style is closely associated with songs of love and heartbreak. Accessible catalogues do not consistently identify an original release date or track-specific songwriter credits for this title, so those details are best left open rather than inferred from neighboring album credits. Its lyric and performance place it firmly in the emotional storytelling tradition of his catalogue.
No dependable chart placement is documented for this recording. Jašar’s career spans the major Yugoslav and Serbian folk scenes of the 1980s onward, but the available sources do not support a specific chart claim for “Zbog nje.” The song’s dramatic strength lies instead in how it makes ordinary sounds—a dawn, a gust of wind—feel like the return of a love the narrator cannot escape.