Я не люблю [Ya ne lyublyu] [English translation]

I do not love when there is no happy ending

I am never getting tired of the life,

I do not love a year in any setting,

When a merry song won't come without a strife.

I do not love misanthropists forbidding;

I don't believe in gang-ho mood and else,

When stranger is my private letters reading

Over my shoulder peeking at my desk.

I do not love when it is only half-way

Or when they interrupted a good talk,

Or when it is against the mane for all day,

Or when against the glass with iron rock.

I hate any assumptions made from slander,

Worms of a doubt and distinction's prods,

I hate it when they shoot in back and under

All reasons, I am against of point-blank shots.

I do not love the well-fed positiveness,

It is better go nuts in an honest rage,

It is bitter that the 'honor' word is meaningless

And that they honor libels back of stage.

When I see broken faith, seduced innocence. -

No compassion in me, not even for a trice -

I do not love enforcement and impotence,

Though I feel pity for the crucified Christ.

I do not love myself when I am scared,

I am indignant for besmirched without fault,

I do not love it when my soul is spared

And more of that, when they are spitting in my soul.

I do not love maneges and arenas -

They swap a million there for a dime,

They might produce to us the greatest winners, -

I will not love them, I will never call them mine.

• Artist:Vladimir Vysotsky