Puno ih je, al' su mali

Puno ih je, al' su mali

Parliament is imagined as a television show worse than the action films it replaces: politicians quote comics, shout like parrots and crowd the chamber in numbers that somehow make them seem smaller. The lyric’s central insult is not simply that the members are foolish, but that they are interchangeable. The chorus turns abundance into disappointment—so many representatives, so little distinction.

That line gives the political satire its focus. The narrator’s frustration is directed at performance: speeches sound recycled, conflict feels staged, and watching the chamber resembles being trapped in a bad program. The text does not identify a particular parliamentary session or named scandal, so it should not be read as a report on one event. No independent review of Bulić’s song was located. Its criticism is broad, perhaps intentionally so; rather than argue policy, it mimics the audience member who has stopped expecting the political spectacle to produce anything original. The punchline is a democracy crowded with voices that all sound the same.

The song’s rapid-fire political insults place it in the tradition of topical cabaret, where the chamber is treated as theater and its occupants as performers who have forgotten their lines. The Grunf reference adds a comic-book dimension to the complaint, suggesting that even recycled wisdom sounds more inventive than parliamentary rhetoric. Its accusation that all politicians are the same is broad, and the lack of a named debate means this is not a close reading of one session. Instead, the satire captures the audience’s fatigue with political performance as an endless rerun.