Pred Bogom ti se kunem

Lukijan Ivanovic · Other Songs - Lukijan Ivanovic

U srcu mrak, nijedan zrak
otkad si me napustila
pitam se, pitam, gde
gde bih da pobegnem
kad svuda tebi pripadam

I kriv sam ja, bez sumnje, znam
puno je dokaza za to
kad noc me pogleda
u zver se pretvaram
a jutra tebi ostavljam

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Pred Bogom ti se kunem
bez tebe ja ne umem
ni da disem, hodam, govorim
nije mi, nije lako
jer ziv sam samo ako
tu si oci kad otvorim

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Nista il' sve, da ili ne
u zivot nocas kockam se

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Pred Bogom ti se kunem

The narrator swears before God that he cannot breathe, walk or speak without the person who left him. Such total dependence might sound like romantic hyperbole, but the verses complicate it with an admission of guilt: he knows he is responsible, sees the evidence against himself, and recognizes that the darkness inside him has turned him into something frightening.

That moral self-accusation is what distinguishes the song from a simple plea to return. The speaker is not only grieving; he is trying to bargain with the beloved while admitting that his own behavior helped bring about the separation. The repeated oath promises sincerity, but the lyric does not resolve whether sincerity is enough to repair harm. No reliable independent review or release history was located for this Lukijan Ivanović entry, so there is no basis for claiming how listeners interpreted it. Read on the page, its emotional center is the uneasy gap between remorse and dependence: he may understand that he caused the break, yet his first appeal is still framed around what he cannot live without.

The oath in the title gives the song a devotional register, but the verses pull that promise into the messy ethics of a breakup. The speaker admits wrongdoing and recognizes evidence against himself, then uses the language of sacred witness to plead for a return. This tension between confession and bargaining is more compelling than a straightforward declaration of love: does remorse mark genuine accountability, or is it another attempt to persuade? The lyric does not settle the question. Its dramatic shape resembles a confessional ballad, where the narrator’s self-incrimination is inseparable from the hope of being forgiven.