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pa sta bude neka bude
da plavi ili gori, Bogu se moli
al' ne idi, to najvise boli
Svaka ptica leti jatu svome
a ja nemam bas nikome
okovan sam k'o u okove
kako dalje, ne znam bez tebe
Ref.
Kukavica nisam ni u snu
muskarac sam i kad sam na dnu
i u sreci i u nesreci
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Ako odes sam cu ostati
lutalica, boem postati
jer za mene nema druge zene
mjesto krvi teces mi kroz vene
Ref.
Budi sa mnom i kad je najteze
Ptice umiru pjevajuci
The narrator’s plea is blunt: stay when things are hardest, because being left is the pain he cannot endure. The flocking bird imagery makes his loneliness feel almost physical—every bird has a group to return to, while he believes he has no one. The title’s tragic image of birds dying as they sing becomes a metaphor for a man who insists on performing strength even at the bottom.
That performance is the song’s central tension. The speaker declares that he is not a coward and calls himself a man in happiness and misfortune, but immediately admits that without the beloved he will become a wanderer. Masculinity is invoked as a defense against vulnerability, not as proof that the vulnerability has disappeared. The lyric’s repeated insistence that there is no other woman only deepens the fear of abandonment.
In regional folk-pop balladry, a dramatic refrain can turn private dependence into a communal lament. This song leans into that tradition, using birds and wandering as accessible images for emotional isolation. No independent review or reliable release context was located. Its strongest reading is not that love should be the only source of belonging, but that the narrator currently cannot imagine another one—and that insistence is both the song’s emotional force and its sadness.
Damir Kulovic Kule’s official channel dates the video to 13 December 2016; the page showed 111,440 views on 14 October 2026. The upload gives this stark song a documented public afterlife beyond the lyric text. Its view total is a platform measure only; I could not verify a chart placement or find an independent critical assessment.