TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH

1. I AM FREE

Demon's wings are growing up insensibly,
I am hopping off and it does not matter where distances leads
Dear black thoughts inspire
They help and strengthen, and I am free

I caught all this world in my hands
I destroyed the law and ressurected it
You can not kill me
I disappeared, I ressurected, I has reached victories

You can not hear my songs - You are deaf
You will die, and all this world will forget about you
I am immortal, I am immortal
I am hopping off, and I know, that I am free

I caught all this world in my hands
I destroyed the law and ressurected it
You can not kill me
I disappeared, I ressurected, I has reached victories


2. 2017

Candle lights in yearning on table
And there are only I and my father in siilent house
I want to know the answer,
I want to know, what for we are here ?

And wind suffers in corners
Like a ghost that can not speak
I demand the answer,
And father told me

O, believe me, it is better for us
Without the world that gone
Yes, believe me, it is easier for us
Without people of the world that gone

Candle lights in yearning on table
I try to imagine things that happened at war
I want to know the answer,
I want to know, what for ?

O, believe me, it is better for us
Without the world that gone
Yes, believe me, it is easier for us
Without people of the world that gone


3. VENGEANCE IS MINE

Hey, all you cowards, liars and whores
Hark now and hear :
Who looks back at you in the mirror ?

It must be really in your crowd
But I don’t fear you
You’re not worth it

For I gave you an example and plenty
I wrote, I showed, I proved
That you had it wrong…
I shall never give you peace
I’ll stay here until the end
To mark down your sins…

Righteous and truthful
Are all my judgements
Vengeance mine and I will repay...
(you defiled the whole world with your life)
Wound for wound, eye for eye
For the day draws near
When I shall spill your blood


4. STROLL BY THE BANKS OF NEVA

So my city has awakened
And I return home at dawn
At a manly hour - for I’m a complex man
In those better times when nothing words
I go away, I know my methods...
The darkness calls and grasps my soul

I want to confess : I’m a scoundrel
I want to laugh, get off my face
I want to dance on the table all night
And drown at sunrise in the Neva...

But nothing happened
They found me frozen under a bridge
Behind the palace and books lay around me


5. I SEE A FACE IN THE SKY

...Behind the window the bay is steaming
I do not have long to live
Yes, I don’t have many words
Yes… just the frost on the window bars

I’m not afraid, but... the barrels’ gaze is chilling
My soul is ready... on my last day

It doesn’t matter what I say
I just wish to see my family...

I see the end... feel the warmth of the sun
My time has come... I’ve waited for this day
I love you... until the end

I still try to capture your image
I still try to reach you in my heart
Yes, I see a face in the sky
At times I imagine that it’s yours


6. MY LIFE

I don’t wish to be brag, but I’m ready to die...
I’ve said all I ever wanted - there’s nothing to add
But again, another pointless morning
And I wake up, not knowing who I am
There’s nothing to add...

My life... led me here for the last time
My life... was lived through because of you
My life... wasn’t any worse than I expected
My life... simply became too hard for me

Ten years ago I thought the world is my oyster
And I did reach almost all my goals - why would I hide it ?
Again, another pointless morning
And I wake up, not knowing who I am
There’s nothing to add...

“I want to live ! I want sorrow... to spite love and happiness;
They have pampered my mind and ironed out my brow”

- M. Yu. Lermontov (1814-1841)


7. THE LAST TOUR

Yes I’ve seen the east and the west
Heard my son’s first breath
But I don’t know why and what for
I’m writing songs all night long

Away... the road quietly drags me further
From you and it shall never bring me back
I don’t want to go home, just continue this tour
And reach the bottom, in the end, falling asleep forever...

I, too, lived on these streets
I was charming and alien
It’s been said that they reek
But that’s not true...
They’re fragrant with the freedom of love


8. RUSSOPHOBE

You refuse to believe what we’ve done, Russophobe
You fail to recognise what we’ve accomplished, Russophobe
You strake into the sunset, but we are the dawn...

You cannot understand our life, Russophobe
And you won’t open your eyes, not even a slit, Russophobe
The sun and the east – It is time…

Let the year begin, the black year of the world
And god shall forget his love for you

We wait for no one
We don’t ask, we take
Distorting everything...
If you’re with us, I bow to you
And if not - good riddance
This is my road, onwards...


9. BAIKAL

I was younger
In both body and mind
And I watched you in the darkness

I wasn’t seeking...
The road simply led to you
And two souls saw into one another

I do not dream of war
For I fight one awake… and at night
I feel like living, but cannot
I’ve not the strength to dream
I feel like living, but it’s
Already too late for me

You’re golden
And I see the heavens in you
In myself – mere dust of the earth

“Shall I hear your voice
So sweet and tender,
Like a bird in this cage,
The heart flutters;
Shall I meet your eyes
So deep and blue,
My soul rushes out
From my chest to the meet them,
At once joyous somehow,
And I feel like crying,
And so I would throw myself
To your embrace.”

- M. Yu. Lermontov (1814-1841)

I love you
I love you to this day and not in vain
With you I do not fear the sunset


10. WHITE DEATH

At night in the Urals
I continued my journey to Siberia
I’ve left Moscow
And abandoned the past
Which I couldn’t bear

No one notice me
So why should I stay ?
Goodbye, my darlings
In vain I tried to live
As you ordered

The snow embraces me and so quietly
I’m asleep, softly drowning in the storm
White snow - the white death
Yes, the snow granted me my request

I don’t want to be understood anymore...
It’s all over now
My past just won’t let me
Goodbye, my darlings
In vain I tried to live
As you wanted

The snow embraces me and so quietly
I’m asleep, softly drowning in the storm
God forgive… the frost reached down to my soul
The world is white… and the cold cleanses my mind
Yes, snow… the white death
Yes, the snow granted me my request

“As I’m about to die,
And, believe me,
You don’t have to wait long -
Tell them to take me
To our garden, to the place where
Two white acacias bloomed...
The grass is so luscious there,
And the air so fresh, so fragrant,
And so thin and golden
The leaf, dancing through the air !
Tell them to lay me there.
In the rays of this blue day
I’ll revel one last time.
The Caucasus can be seen thence !
Perhaps, from their heights
The mountains will bid me farewell,
A farewell through a cool breeze...
And around me before the end
A familiar sigh resounds again !
And I think that a friend
Or brother, bending cover me,
Will wipe with a careful hand
From my brow the cold sweat of the end,
And softly singing to me
About that beloved land…
And with this thought I fall asleep,
Without cursing a soul !”

- M. Yu. Lermontov (1814-1841)