The most beautiful song in the world!

[Djamila]

That's good news. The pictures that you've posted are beautiful. Looks like a place out of a story book. So different from where I live but it's nice to know that beautiful places like that exist.

Like a story book. It's funny you say that, I've read so many times in travel reviews on Western news sites, "Bosnia's fairytale landscape" - hahaha.

But I do have to admit, even without my bias, that we have an exceptionally beautiful corner of the world. They joke it's why Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia fight so much. Our lands are so beautiful, we become like the creatures in the Lord of the Rings.

"Oh...my preciousss...my preciouss... mine, mine...my preciousss..." lol

 

[Djamila]

A war ballad from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

I find it very interesting, and beautful. The verses are very heavily Islamic in theme and vocal style. She sings about the mountains, the market, all these sorts of things Muslims love about Sarajevo.

And then the chorus is very modern, and very angry. She says, over and over:

Sarajevo, Sarajevo! Gdje je moja raja, gdje je moja raja!?

Raja is like... it's slang. Basically your raja is, as they say in the west, your "crew", your "homies". But raja, in Bosnian, is a much older slang term - centuries old, actually. So it's more like a real word, and everyone uses it. But it has the same meaning as "homies" and "crew".

"Gdje je moja raja" = "Where are my homies"

http://media.putfile.com/Sarajevo-Sarajevo