The opening lyrics couldn’t be plainer: “I am from Bosnia; take me to America.” But by rewriting its classic “USA,” the Bosnian band Dubioza Kolektiv has transformed a song about disillusionment with the American Dream into a viral anthem powering Bosnia-Herzegovina’s own World Cup dreams.开头的歌词再直白不过了：“我来自波斯尼亚，带我去美国。”但通过改编自己的经典歌曲《美国》，波黑乐队“Dubioza Kolektiv”将一首关于对美国梦幻灭的歌曲，变成了一首助力波黑国家队自己世界杯梦想的病毒式传播圣歌。

On the eve of Friday’s match between Bosnia and Canada, members of the genre-bending rock group met The Associated Press in the Sarajevo neighborhood where they filmed the new music video for the accordion-heavy earworm, now titled “I Am From Bosnia, Take Me to America.” In less than three weeks, the video celebrating soccer’s working-class roots has notched nearly 2 million views on YouTube — on top of the 26 million views the original “USA,” released in 2011, has amassed over the years.在周五波黑对阵加拿大队比赛的前夜，这支风格多元的摇滚乐队的成员在萨拉热窝的街区接受了美联社采访，他们正是在这里拍摄了这首以手风琴伴奏为主的洗脑神曲的新版音乐视频，新版歌曲名为《我来自波斯尼亚，带我去美国》。在不到三周的时间里，这首颂扬足球草根精神的视频在YouTube上的点击量已近200万次——这还不算2011年发行的原版《美国》多年来积累的2600万次点击量。

“It’s an interesting story how this song got its second and third and fourth incarnation in these 15 years,” muses Vedran Mujagić, bassist for the band that has woven political and social causes into its identity. “It evolved from this satirical take on immigration and (the) American Dream and it was translated into (an) American football dream for the entire nation.”乐队贝斯手韦德兰·穆亚吉奇若有所思地说：“有趣的是，这首歌在这15年里经历了第二次、第三次、第四次迭代。乐队赋予其政治及社会身份，把它从关于移民和美国梦的讽刺性作品，变成了整个国家在足球领域的美国梦。”

Bosnia-Herzegovina is making only its second appearance at a World Cup, a goal that once seemed improbable as more traditional soccer powers stood in the way of qualification. At the end of April, though, Bosnia’s late goal against Wales propelled the team to a victorious penalty shootout, a feat it would replicate days later against Italy. The band members were surprised when fans unfurled a banner emblazoned with their lyrics, singing them as a rallying cry.波黑队仅是第二次亮相世界杯，这个目标曾因传统足球强国的阻碍而看似遥不可及。但在4月底，波黑队在对阵威尔士队的比赛最后时刻进球，将比赛拖入点球大战并最终获胜，几天后对阵意大利队时，他们又复制了这一壮举。当球迷们展开印有他们歌词的横幅，并将其作为战斗口号高唱时，乐队成员们感到十分惊讶。

“First, it was working as a joke, but what I like the most is the supporters kind of loaded completely new meaning to the old song, and this is the best thing for the band or for the song: when people take over and load new meaning and then it becomes theirs,” keyboardist Brano Jakubović says. “It’s not ours anymore.”
键盘手布拉诺·雅库博维奇说：“起初，这只是一种玩笑，但我最喜欢的是，球迷们为这首老歌注入了全新的意义。这对于乐队或这首歌来说是最好的事情：当人们接手并注入新含义，它就成了他们的歌曲，不再属于我们了。”
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The original “USA” is as up-tempo and catchy — it’s hard not to wander around muttering, “I can no longer wait, take me to United States / Take me to Golden Gate, I will assimilate” — but its protagonist’s eagerness to flee slides quickly to disenchantment with life outside the Balkans.
原版《美国》节奏明快、朗朗上口——你很难不四处走动时哼唱“我等不及了，带我去美国 / 带我去金门大桥，我会融入” ——但主角渴望逃离的情绪很快转变为对巴尔干半岛以外生活的失望。

The band decided to deliver an updated version of what Jakubović describes as a “typical immigrant song,” writing new lyrics befitting a soccer anthem. While “USA” is in English, this version is mostly in Bosnian — “so people will understand,” he says — and mostly about the sport. The language switch has done nothing to lessen its global appeal, as a quick perusal of the YouTube comments suggests, though there are some jokes Jakubović acknowledges would be inscrutable outside Bosnia.乐队决定对雅库博维奇所描述的这首“典型的移民歌曲”进行更新，创作出适合足球圣歌的新歌词。原版《美国》是英文歌，而这个版本主要是波斯尼亚语——“这样人们才能理解”——内容也主要关于足球。浏览一下YouTube的评论就会发现，语言的转换丝毫未减其全球吸引力，尽管雅库博维奇承认其中一些笑料在波黑以外难以理解。

Jakubović’s favorite new line is a chance to excise something that has haunted the country since the 2014 World Cup: “And that goal against Nigeria, that was never offside.”雅库博维奇最喜欢的新歌词获得一个机会，那就是可以消除自2014年世界杯以来一直困扰着该国那件事：“那个对阵尼日利亚的进球，那绝对没有越位。”

“So this is like a big national trauma in Bosnia, so I used the song and lyrics to kind of release this trauma,” he says.他说：“所以这就像波斯尼亚的一个巨大的民族创伤，我用这首歌和歌词来释放这种创伤。”

He’s being wry there, but trauma has been a mainstay since Bosnia’s independence amid the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992. Interethnic war almost immediately broke out, leading to genocide. More than 30 years after the Srebrenica massacre, deep division between Bosnian Serbs and Bosniak Muslims persist.他这话带点讽刺，但自1992年波斯尼亚从前南斯拉夫独立以来，创伤一直如影随形。民族间的战争几乎立刻爆发，导致了种族灭绝。斯雷布雷尼察大屠杀过去三十多年后，波黑塞族和波什尼亚克穆斯林之间的深刻分歧依然存在。

“Football in this moment is much more than just a game, it’s a hope and it’s very basically (a) political thing because it brought all the people from Bosnia together, which is usually not the case,” Jakubović says.雅库博维奇说：“此刻，足球不仅仅是一场比赛，它更是一种希望，而且非常根本上说，它是一个政治事物，因为它把波黑所有的人们凝聚在一起，而通常情况下这种情况不会发生。”

I am from Bosnia, take me to ... Canada?我来自波斯尼亚，带我去……加拿大？
Bosnia’s first match is in Canada, but the team will indeed be taken to America. Their base camp is in Sandy, Utah, and the other group stage matches — against Switzerland and Qatar — are in the States. And, as Mujagić points out, many of the players were born in the U.S. or elsewhere in the diaspora.波黑队的首场比赛在加拿大，但球队确实将被带到美国。他们的大本营设在犹他州的桑迪，其他的小组赛（对阵瑞士和卡塔尔）将在美国进行。而且，正如穆亚吉奇指出的，许多球员出生在美国或来自世界各地的波黑侨民。

“They are children of those people who went outside in search of a better life or as refugees or whatever their story was. And they kind of see and hear these lyrics and this song entirely differently from us,” he says.
他说：“他们是那些为了寻求更好生活或作为难民等任何原因而离开家乡的人的孩子。他们看待和聆听这些歌词以及整首歌的方式，与我们截然不同。”

Mujagić thinks the original message of “USA” endures as Bosnians still emigrate. Once they leave, he finds, “they encounter this hostility of the locals, right-wingers, and they just don’t want them there.”
穆亚吉奇认为，《美国》最初传递的信息依然存在，因为波黑人仍在移民。他发现，一旦他们离开，“就会遭遇当地人、右翼分子的敌意，他们根本不欢迎他们。”

“So it’s this schizophrenic situation in which you want to go there, but you somehow know that you won’t have it good on the other side as well,” he concludes. “So in that sense, this song still works perfectly well as it worked before.”他总结道：“所以这是一种矛盾的局面：你想去那里，但你又隐约知道自己在另一边也不会过得好。从这个意义上说，这首歌仍然像以前一样完美地发挥着作用。”

In St. Louis, home to a thriving Bosnian community, Admir Hodzic is one of the founders of the supporter group BH Loyals. The 40-year-old business owner was born in Bosnia and has moved back and forth between his homeland and the U.S., not unlike the protagonist of “USA.”
在拥有繁荣波黑社区的圣路易斯，阿德米尔·霍季奇是球迷团体“BH Loyals”的创始人之一。这位40岁的企业主出生于波斯尼亚，在原籍国和美国之间来回搬迁，这与《美国》这首歌的主角颇为相似。
“I think every Bosnian that lives here and understands how the system works and everything else, I think they will find the truth in that song, and that song is honestly nothing but the truth,” he says. There are more opportunities in the U.S. than elsewhere, he says, but “it’s a matter of biting your teeth and pulling through the worst times possible.”他说：“我认为每个生活在这里、了解这个社会体系如何运作的波黑人，都会在那首歌中发现真相，那首歌真的全是真相。” 他说，在美国的机会比别处多，但“关键在于咬牙坚持，渡过最艰难的时期”。

He and his fellow supporters are big fans of Dubioza Kolektiv and sing their anthem at matches and watch parties. More often than not, though, it’s the original “USA.”他和他的支持者们是Dubioza Kolektiv乐队的忠实粉丝，并在比赛和观赛派对上高唱他们的圣歌。不过，更多时候，他们唱的还是原版《美国》。

“It’s engraved in their brain and their hearts,” he says, “and no matter what, they just go back to the old lyrics, you know?”他说：“那首歌已经刻在了他们的脑海和心里，” “无论如何，他们总会回到原来的歌词里去，你明白吗？”