Россиянцы и американе [Rossiyantsy i amerikane] [English translation]

It's an ordinary day, and I'm ordinary too,

walking in my snow boots on a frosty morning.

That wind has a bite as it stings my nose and cheeks.

A brown bear on a leash walks by,

and I brush a few crumbs from its mouth through its muzzle.

I remember the bells and clasp a "matroshka" to my chest.

I shake my head wearing a cap with its ear-flaps down,

and play my song even louder,

as a nightingale calls to me from a birch tree.

My "balalaika" is missing a string, but it still plays fine.

Like an old woman carrying a flask, who'll give me a swig,

heat me up, so I can play my music all over this park.

In Hollywood, some Russian guy gets a movie role.

as a nightingale calls to me from a birch tree.. [x2]

[Chorus:]

Even if my shirt's buttoned up

my soul is always wide open.

We're all mixed together, just like on the big screen

we Russians and Americans.

Even if my shirt's buttoned up

my soul is always wide open.

We're all mixed together, just like on the big screen

we Russians and Americans.

My mom cooked porridge and cabbage soup on the stove,

But Anton 1 flew out of Russia. Ain't that some shit?!

Then the sun somehow shone different and sad.

Later, exhausted, I screamed "Son of a bitch!"

Whites grab other white guys by the throat.

Blacks say "Get on my dick!" to other blacks.

Every second here is nothing but gangster crap.

At every corner, the cops shout, "Put your gun down!"

I tell the taxi driver: "Slow down, dumbass."

He puts a huge gun to my forehead while screaming "nigga" every other word.

I get a one-way ticket from New York to Moscow,

I only came here to get an Oscar to give it to my mom for her porridge and cabbage soup.

[Chorus]

Is it true that soon there will be no more printed money?

Is it true that planes will stop falling from the sky?

What did the rovers find on Mars? (Huh?)

Where I'm from, it's all just legends.

No internet, and there is no information.

Where are all the artificial organs, and what about immortality?

Who will be the best rapper of the century?

What do you think? Standing there rooted to the spot, where is this stuff?

Maybe you've classified everything too?

Where I come from, people aren't really wild about

inventing stuff, except reinventing old guns.

They fine tune things with a sledgehammer.

We've made a toast to the chimes of the time.

Paratroopers do somersaults now.

So many talented people are overlooked like weeds in the asphalt.

I look at myself and find myself slightly responsible.

Well, the facts will come out, but probably tomorrow.

[Chorus]

as a nightingale calls to me from a birch tree.. [x2]

1. Anton Zmey - a student of Kasta (the singer)

• Artist:Kasta