Разговор в поезде [Razgovor v poezde] [English translation]

Debates on the train it's the one and only thing,

When there are no drinks for the bloke

The bottle is empty, but the train is rolling,

And you just dying to talk.

And the two start to argue, for real, no constraint

The wheels rumble, our sleep is gone.

One kept repeating:" Our life is a train".

Another said:" It's a platform" .

One man asserted: " Our way ahead is clear",

Another guy objected: " I doubt that".

One kept saying:"Like, we are engineers"

"We are passengers" another guy said.

One said: "For us freedom is the best reward:

We're driving the train where we need ".

Another guy said:" Oh, please,don't act the lord.

We'll get off the same way we seat in it".

And the first one shouted:"For many years

The road is open for us guys" .

The second one said:" not so many, I fear-

It all depends on the ticket price".

And the first one shouted:" Wherever we want, we go

And we can, if need be, turn the other way".

The second one answered:" The train is not a crow,

It's only goes, where the tracks are laid"

And both got off somewhere near Taganrog

Among the endless fields.

And each went his own way through the early fog,

And the train went where it always will

• Artist:Mashina vremeni
• Album:Реки и мосты (1987)