Признаки жизни [Priznaki Zhizni] [English translation]

[1]

From Moominvalleys1, Hobbitons2, from Heffalumps3,

From closets, top shelves, and semibasements,

From the walking tunnels, that got acquainted with vandals spray paint,

Office windows where I used to be a slave of feodal lords,

I took something out, stashed it at nights

And until the Boss tells me "Collect your things and get out" (Get out goddammit)

You will make the dealer sad again

By buying stuff from an Englishman with bulging eyes.

Should I wait and push harder or leave

So that my copycats finish my job?

I talk bullshit and they repeat it without questions

But eventually: who is a scientist and who is a lab rabbit? (who?)

I need a doctor, better send him to my home and urgently:

Watson, Freud, Kurpatov4, Pepper

The horizon is clouded, a window banged shut somewhere

Someone, give me light, I don't give a fuck if it's from God or optical fibre.

[Hook]

I...

I can't explain what's going on in my brain TV transmission case

I'm back, get ready, world

You ordered my head - I serve you signs of life

I...

I can't explain what's going on in my brain TV transmission case

I'm back, get ready, world

You ordered my head - I serve you signs of life

[2]

I haven't released stuff for many years

I've been waiting for it to become fat like Falstaff5

You were probably sure that it's time, that you're Five Star6

Your haste made waste7, this is false start

I've preached to goldfinches like Francis of Assisi8

I've seen Death, she said "Sign my boobs"

We are of different kinds: you walk along the safe road

And I'm either on the yellow brick road9 or on a red carpet

Are you judging me? Make sure you're not a rich kid

I was a hungry MC - I ate the others and became ravenous

You were intimidating and pushed out your diarrhea under the radar

But you still don't have enough guts even for that

Your mother's sister is wet like a water body

Her hole is so small that I'm a nanofucker

Some MC write to me "Holy shit, bro, so cool"

Thank you too, biomass and protoplasm.

[Hook]

I...

I can't explain what's going on in my brain TV transmission case

I'm back, get ready, world

You ordered my head - I serve you signs of life

I...

I can't explain what's going on in my brain TV transmission case

I'm back, get ready, world

You ordered my head - I serve you signs of life

[3]

If all cats are grey in the dark,

Who is the black cat that talks to me every night?

We hold dialogues about everything:

About The Decline of the West10, and the lie of the system

If it was a devil - the stench would give him away

Like the one from a barrel of sulphur

But there's nothing like that

It flies out of the window into the dark

It's raining and snowing like hell. We are

All isolated from the ground, we're blind

And on the ground we're like thin stalks

Including you

In cubicles and cells, we're lonely like relics in tombs

There's no fucking point in feeling down now

Against everyone and... brrryaa

Collective responsibility

The one who saved some money leaves it to their grandchildren, but

My savings are the total sum of the sounds I make

I force you into a corner

If you are Super MC - I'm Lex Luthor11

There is a forest of raised hands on the concerts, but

I'm still here against the wind like a weather vane

I've been the sieve of undeground for so many years

I've fucked up so many winters, I've wasted so much energy

Demo-tapes, online battles, hapless labels

That's enough

And even though we're from a test tube,

We're not ready to live in a gallery

In a stampede like on Khodynka Field12, I'm a jinn from a bottle

Or jack-in-the-box

I'm alone with a lamp

My eyes after Red Bull - manga

Sleep deprivation, I'm fucking exhausted

Dark circles under my eyes - a panda

I tore out everything in this fucking song

From my chest - Danko13

I would pull myself out of this game,

But I'm afraid to injure her tonsils

[Hook]

I...

I can't explain what's going on in my brain TV transmission case

I'm back, get ready, world

You ordered my head - I serve you signs of life

I...

I can't explain what's going on in my brain TV transmission case

I'm back, get ready, world

You ordered my head - I serve you signs of life

[Outro]

I...

I can't explain what's going on in my brain TV transmission case

I'm back, get ready, world

You ordered my head - I serve you signs of life

1. Moominvalley (Swedish: Mumindalen, Finnish: Muumilaakso) is a fictional place, where the Moomins live in the tales by Finnish author Tove Jansson.2. The Hobbiton Movie Set was a significant location used for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbit film series. 3. A Heffalump is a type of elephant-like character in the Winnie the Pooh stories by A. A. Milne. Heffalumps are mentioned, and only appear, in Pooh and Piglet's dreams in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and seen again in The House at Pooh Corner (1928).4. Andrey Kurpatov is a famous Russian psychotherapist5. Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who is mentioned in four plays by William Shakespeare and appears on stage in three of them. He is a fat, vain, boastful, and cowardly knight, who spends most of his time drinking at the Boar's Head Inn with petty criminals, living on stolen or borrowed money.6. Five Star is a British pop group, formed in 1983. Between 1985 and 1988, Five Star had four Top 20 albums and 15 Top 40 singles in the UK.7. Literally "you made haste and became a laughing stock"8. Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history. He called all creatures his “brothers” and “sisters”, and even preached to the birds and supposedly persuaded a wolf to stop attacking some locals if they agreed to feed the wolf.9. The Yellow Brick Road is a fictional element in the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by American author L. Frank Baum. 10. The Decline of the West (also The Downfall of the Occident) - is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler, the first volume of which was published in the summer of 1918.11. Lex Luthor - is a comic book super villain in the DC Comics universe, and is mainly the arch-nemesis to Superman.12. The Khodynka Tragedy was a human stampede that occurred on 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1896, on Khodynka Field in Moscow, Russia during the festivities following the coronation of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II, which resulted in the deaths of 1,389 people.13. Danko - is one of the characters of the novel The Old Woman Izergil by Maxim Gorky. Danko and his tribe were lost in the woods. Eventually, he tore his chest, pulled out his burning heart and raised it over his head. Lighting the way, Danko led the people of his tribe out of the forest. He died, but no one noticed it. Only one person accidentally stepped on the heart of the young man, it spilled into sparks and went out.

• Artist:Oxxxymiron