Жил-был я [Zhil-byl ya] [English translation]

I have been living

(Is it worth to talk?)

The storm hit the pier

(I was young and handsome)

The fleet was sailing to the port.

(With a winning ticket)

I have been living

(I remember that I lived).

A heat, a rain, a thunder

(Wet boulevards)

Night, a light of the eyes.

(A curl at the shoulder)

We walked all night

(We tore off the leaves)

We, you, me,

Babbling tenderly

I knew the salt of tears

(Uninhabited walls)

A night without a sleep.

(A heart without warmth)

The abandoned city

was switching off as a gas

(A glance without eyes

Windows without a glass)

Where is that snow?

(How the skis glided!)

Where is that beach?

(With a golden sand)

Where is that forest?

(With a whisper "closer")

Where is that rain?

(Barefoot together).

Get up, drop off sleeping

(Do not look, don't)

A sleep isn't life.

(Something was dreaming and I forgot)

A sleep like a moss.

(In the ancient colonnades)

I have been living

(I remembered that I lived).

• Artist:Alexander Gradsky