Rock band "Van Gogh" Traces of the Past (1986) Video in description.

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The Serbian (at that time Yugoslav) rock band called Van Gogh has one of my favorite songs. Not only because it was released in the year I was born, but it also conveys the feelings and doubts of young people a few years after the death of Josip Broz Tito, the lifelong president of Yugoslavia, and a few years before the start of the war in the Balkans and the breakup of Yugoslavia into six republics. Although it was the eighties, a decade of the most beautiful music, deep national and religious tensions were already felt in our region. There are many songs that better capture all of this, much harsher, but I chose this one, which can also be interpreted in other ways. In fact, the song chose me. Sometimes a verse from a song just runs through my mind, throwing me into deep memories. And some of them I turn into dreams. My first choice was not the rails and the train, but just the never ending road. But after about twenty attempts and a huge amount of points spent, the AI ​​in one of its twisted ways made me a picture of a man with the lights of a train coming towards him. And then the idea to improve the dream itself was born, and a better representation of what followed in the early nineties. Hit by a high-speed train.
Enjoy the song. :)
Van Gogh - Tragovi prošlosti - (Official Video 1986)
https://youtu.be/nZcpa07UVk8?si=fYXBl6nlk9U_Fv95

English translation:
Traces of the Past
I'm on an endless road
but I still want to know
where this dream leads, oh, what a day
but I still want to know

[Chorus]
Traces of the past in me
in the night without a dawn

Moving head-bent under the low skies
the ghost of freedom from the Balkans' forests
I bend my wings at the heavens' door
God and beggar from war to war