Ja hocu ljubav
Marina Tadic · Other Songs - Marina Tadic
al’ sudjeno je kao vetar da se rodis
i necu vise ja pred svetom da se pravim
Smucilo mi se tvoje ludilo
sto u meni si mene ubio
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Ja hocu ljubav, ja hocu sve
i hocu najbolje godine
da delim s nekim ko mene je vredan
Ja hocu ljubav i hocu sad
sa nekim ko je u srcu mlad
a ti zauvek ces ostati bezbedan
tako sebican i sam
Ja sanjam s tobom dan u miru i bez lazi
jos ta devojcica u meni srecu trazi
to sto si unistio nigde neces naci
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Ja hocu ljubav
“Ja hoću ljubav” (“I Want Love”) is not a gentle request. The narrator dreams of being woken and loved, but says fate has made the beloved like the wind—here, then gone. She is tired of pretending in public and of the other person’s madness, which has made her feel erased inside herself. The title’s simplicity is almost defiant: beneath the drama, she wants the most basic thing a relationship should offer.
There is a powerful reversal in the lyric. The singer is not asking for this particular person at any cost; she is asking for love itself, something the relationship has failed to provide. That distinction opens a path beyond the beloved. The song’s emotional force comes from the moment the narrator stops treating pain as proof of devotion and recognizes that she wants something better than the chaos she has been given.
Marina Tadić’s delivery lets the refrain sound both wounded and determined. Independent song criticism is limited, so no broad public response is asserted. “Ja hoću ljubav” makes its demand in plain words, then gives those words a larger meaning: wanting love can be the first step toward refusing a relationship that has made you feel less like yourself. The singer has not yet described where she will find it, but she has started to name what is missing.