Peva kafana
Ljupka Stevic · Other Songs - Ljupka Stevic
Dvaput sam se napila
i treznila u danu
da ne secam se s kim si sinoc
bio u mom stanu
Ti srce si mi slomio
al' ne placem za nama
otkad mi vise nismo zajedno
moja adresa je kafana
Nisi mi se nadao te noci
u tom trenu
do malopre si vladao
a sad si u problemu
Dzabe sad gutas knedle
gledas nju, gledas mene
tu je kofer, tu su vrata
hajde izdajice zbogom sada
Ref.
Dvaput sam se napila
i treznila u danu
da ne secam se s kim si sinoc
bio u mom stanu
Te noci ja sam odrasla
moj ponos nema cenu
a sada duso gledaj
kako se klinka pretvara u zenu
K'o zlato sam te cuvala
i pratila u svemu
nije tesko biti najbolji
kad sam si na terenu
Ref.
Ref.
Peva kafana
Instead of explaining the feeling, the lyric begins with “Dvaput sam se napila” and lets the listener enter through the scene. There is no need to treat every first-person line as autobiography. The lyric constructs a speaker through what they repeat, what they exaggerate and which details they choose to disclose. That distinction is especially useful here: performance and feeling can coexist without being identical. The song’s unresolved edges are not a flaw to explain away; they are part of its expressive design.
The song uses the directness of regional pop and folk-pop writing: the refrain makes the emotional premise immediately graspable, while the verses supply a more particular character and situation. That familiarity is not automatically a weakness. The best moments come when the narrative complicates the hook, letting affection coexist with regret, pride with doubt, or humour with a genuinely difficult feeling. That choice matters because the speaker is not simply reporting an emotion; the lyric stages how it is reached. The verses add complications that the refrain cannot entirely settle, so repetition feels less like a final answer than another attempt to make one persuasive. This gap between declaration and evidence is where the song becomes a character portrait rather than a generic statement.
Its online history is more readily documented than its critical reception. The matching video on Ljupka Stevic dates to 2016-04-10 and displayed 2,852,882 views on 14 October 2026. Those views establish repeated access to this upload, not a sales or broadcast ranking, and cannot stand for the entire audience. I did not find a dependable chart listing or independent song-specific review.

