And though to my untrained ear the music sounds like a balkanized version of 80 s pop-rock spiced up by the occasional ballad, I am told again and again that, if you understand this song, you ll understand Serbs (or alternatively Vojvodina, Yugoslavia, life, love, etc.). Yet against the background of whirling Serbian lyrics, one, a student of theoretical mathematics, routinely quotes the poetry of Blake and Yeats, another regularly argues with me in almost perfect English about the questionable validity of the free-market as a global system, and the third, well he just rants about being a Hungarian, so maybe he ' s not the best example