Неваляшка [Nevalyashka] [English translation]

A young man with fiery eyes departed from point A to point B,

In the journey, he put on some weight, drank away his armour, married a washwoman,

Every second man here is like him, there's a swarm of them, the unit won't notice one more lost soldier,

But I learned life lessons from the dead like the Prince of Denmark from his father's ghost,

I'm told to be tolerant, comply with the memorandum to

Know all the boundaries and the Table of Ranks1, and not to return like a boomerang – it's too soon,

The world is the same, except you blame your boot soles and withdraw from the race,

This is the louse of doubt crawling under the skin through the holes in your shell,

Like: you kinda make money, so why do others rub it in gums?

And there are only hardships, hardships and hardships around, fuck, when will I see stars?

I go straight through as usual – through the wind-broken trees and thorns of border forests,

Some people have a key to success and some people have a crowbar and a picklock.

Smoke, forgotten faces in a stairwell, it's so easy to blend in here,

But it's hard to sit tight as if I was some hyperactive teenager,

So to hell with self-pity, a man needs less useless self-reflection and more reflexes,

When you have a precise goal, futile wandering transforms into a quest

That leads us

Even further, even longer,

Nothing is the way it used to be, ice is thinner,

There are less of us and although it's hard,

The strongest survives, but a tumbler toy wins.

Our creator was either careless or incompetent and

We were born in the wrong century, in the cold state, on the wrong hemisphere,

We remember every word, we know things that won't get us a Crystal Owl,2

It's important to abide and not piss your pants here – it's a Sanitary Protection Zone3

It's said that humility is a virtue, I would vanish maybe for a year

For so long if it weren't for the crowds that would sue me in the Hague.

The world is the same, except you almost give up and so close to the bottom,

But that's the point, they say that shit can't drown,

And even when you're half dead, you remember that there's the Golden Fleece on the other side,

And yes, it's worth it

That's all allegorical, but I genuinely have no fucking clue how to tell the others about it,

I go straight through as usual, only without close and loved ones,

Kicks on the jaw are even handy since you don't have to be something in quotation marks,

Here's free floating, you reached the land and only your heel's bleeding4,

There are hidden underwater rocks everywhere, but I've heard that constant dropping wears away a stone,

So to hell with self-pity, to hell with self-reflection, everything will change quickly,

When someone runs for life, a trickster appears out of nowhere

And leads us

Even further, even longer,

Nothing is the way it used to be, ice is thinner,

There are less of us and although it's hard,

The strongest survives, but a tumbler toy wins.

One day you'll wake up and realize that it's just the end of your childhood,

Movings and milestones, crossroads and copses are behind,

For so many years you've been a wandering overgrown child, you whined so often and trusted chimaeras,

Then there was a feast in the time of plague, and we had love in the time of cholera,

Let it be, there's only a bunch of fates not driven by the Scrooge's driver 5

And it's not the same as everywhere – a dull meat jelly,

My way is here and I'm a pack-mule on it,

And I don't care about a sly drone buzzing,

We climbed so fast, then fell fast,

But around here it's either up the sheer wall or down the spiral.

Even further, even longer,

Nothing is the way it used to be, ice is thinner,

There are less of us and although it's hard,

The strongest survives, but a tumbler toy wins.

1. The Table of Ranks was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia.2. The Crystal Owl is the prize given to the winners of the well-known Russian intellectual game TV show Chto? Gde? Kogda? (What? Where? When?)3. Passengers of a train are not allowed to use toilets when the train is passing through such a zone.4. Allusion to Achilles' heel, which is a weakness in spite of overall strength, which can lead to downfall.5. Ebenezer Scrooge is the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol. He was obsessed with money.

• Artist:Oxxxymiron
• Album:miXXXtape II: Долгий путь домой (2013)