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You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
Пластмассовый мир победил
The plastic dimension prevailed
The plastic world has won
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
Ликует картонный набат
And cardboard alarm bells rejoice
The cardboard alarm bell is rejoicing
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
Кому нужен ломтик июльского неба?
Who cares for a sliver of mid-July heaven?
Who needs a slice of the July sky?
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моя оборона
O, aw - all my defenses
my defense
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Солнечный зайчик незрячего мира
A flashbunny sunbeam of world-time gone blinded
A sunbeam of a blind world
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
моя оборона
O, aw - all my defenses
my defense
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
Траурный мячик стеклянного глаза
Funereal football of eyes glassing over
A mourning ball of a glass eye
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Траурный зайчик нелепого глаза...
Funereal sunbun of ludicrous eyeballs...
A mourning sunbeam of a ridiculous eye...
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
моя оборона
O, aw - all my defenses
my defense
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
Траурный мячик незрячего мира
Funereal ball of a realm blinded over
A mourning ball of a blind world
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
Солнечный зайчик стеклянного глаза
A solarized shine flicking side of a glass eye
A sunbeam from a glass eye
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
МОЯ ОБОРОНА /n (Автор Песни: Егор Летов) /n Пластмассовый мир победил /n Макет оказался сильней /n Последний кораблик остыл /n Последний фонарик устал, /n А в горле сопят комья воспоминаний /n /n Оо — моя оборона — /n Солнечный зайчик стеклянного глаза /n Оо — моя оборона — /n Траурный мячик нелепого мира /n Траурный м...
MY DEFENSES /n (Songwriter: Yegor Letov) /n The model has beaten the real /n The plastic dimension prevailed /n The last tiny ship froze within /n The last little lantern grew tired, /n While lumped recollections are choking the throat and… /n /n O, aw — all my defenses — /n A flashbunny sunbeam of eyes glassing over ...
My Protection /n Yegor Letov /n The plastic world has won /n The model turned out to be stronger /n The last little boat has cooled down /n The last flashlight has grown tired, /n And lumps of memories snort in my throat /n /n Oo — my defense — /n A sunbeam in a glass eye /n Oo — my defense — /n A mournful ball of a ri...
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
ЕЩË НЕ ПОЗДНО /n (Авторы Песни: Леонид Фёдоров (песнь), Дмитрий Озерский (слова)) /n Ещё не поздно, День уже прожит, Войди, прохожий, Я тебе верю. Сдирая кожу, входит луна В узкие двери. Что-то поет чей-то голос, Бьется в стекло, Тонет в стекле. Разорвалось, раскололось... Кто-то зовет меня. /n /n Ещё не поздно, Нас уж...
IT’S NOT TOO LATE /n (Songwriters: Leonid Fedorov (song), Dmitriy Ozerskiy (lyrics)) /n It’s not too late though The day is all lived through. Enter, oh, stranger, Sure I believe you. Peeling its flesh, the moon comes through The narrow doorway. Singing away, someone’s voice, it Beats at the glass, Drowns in the glass....
Not too Late /n Leonid Fedorov (music), Dmitry Ozersky (lyrics)) It's not too late, The day is already over, Come in, passerby, I believe you. Peeling off the skin, the moon enters Through the narrow door. Someone's voice sings something, Beats against the glass, Drowns in the glass. It bursts, it shatters... Someone i...
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
Ещё не поздно,
It's not too late though
It's not too late,
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
День уже прожит,
The day is all lived through.
The day has already been lived,
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Войди, прохожий,
Enter, oh, stranger,
Come in, passerby,
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Я тебе верю.
Sure I believe you.
I believe you.
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Сдирая кожу, входит луна
Peeling its flesh, the moon comes through
Tearing off its skin, the moon enters
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В узкие двери.
The narrow doorway.
Through the narrow doors.
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Что-то поет чей-то голос,
Singing away, someone's voice, it
Someone's voice is singing something,
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Бьется в стекло,
Beats at the glass,
It's hitting the glass,
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Тонет в стекле.
Drowns in the glass.
It's drowning in the glass.
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Разорвалось, раскололось...
Something got torn, split through corners...
It has torn, it has split...
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Кто-то зовет меня.
Someone calls out for me.
Someone is calling me.
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Ещё не поздно,
It's not too late, for
It's not too late,
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Нас уже двое,
We've become two now.
There are two of us now,
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За дверью воет, мы ещё целы.
We're still intact, outside there's howling.
Something is howling behind the door, we are still whole.
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Над полем боя светит луна,
Over the war field shimmers the moon,
The moon is shining over the battlefield,
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Скучно быть смелым.
Courage is boring.
It's boring to be brave.
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Бог оказался фраером,
Turns out God was one mark-ass dummy
God turned out to be a sucker,
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Расфуфыренным фраерком.
Just a fancied-out wee marky toast
A dressed-up little sucker.
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
А тени скользят по гравию,
Now, where shadows are sliding on gravel
And the shadows are gliding on the gravel,
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Колышемы ветерком.
By the breeze every shadow throbs.
Swayed by the breeze.
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Ветерок колышет те тени,
And these shadows get throbbing twistered
The breeze is swaying those shadows,
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Гравий тревожно шуршит,
Over gravel which scrapes with unease
The gravel is rustling anxiously,
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Как вши в шевелюре Есенина,
Like a Messerschmitt plane in the distance
Like lice in Yesenin's hair,
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Как вдалеке Мессершмитт.
From Esenin's gold curls like fleas
Like a Messerschmitt in the distance.
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Как деньги, когда их считают,
Or like cash when it's being counted
Like money, when it is being counted,
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Как шёлковые чулки,
Or like silken tights with a swirl,
Like silk stockings,
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Как книжки, когда их листают,
Or like books when somebody leafs them,
Like books, when they are being leafed through,
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Короче, шуршит, чуваки.
In short, it just scrapes, y'all.
In short, it's rustling, dudes.
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Гравий шуршит потому что
And the cause of this scraping gravel
The gravel is rustling because
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Чует пиздёныш беду -
Is some cunt who disaster sniffed
The little fucker senses trouble -
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Знает, что город в опасности,
Knowing well that the city's in danger
It knows that the city is in danger,
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Раз по нему я иду.
Because I make my way in it.
Since I am walking through it.
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Я ж тут ходить не должен,
Because I'm not supposed to walk here,
I'm not supposed to walk here,
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Я ж должен не тут лежать
But instead somewhere else must chill.
I'm supposed to be lying not here
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Так типа, блядь, положено,
Because thus it was fucking ordered,
That's how it's fucking supposed to be,
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Иначе не сдобровать.
Or else things would go mean uphill.
Otherwise there will be trouble.
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Я же нахуй Владимир Ленин
Since I'm, fuck it, Vladimir Lenin
I am fucking Vladimir Lenin
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Я же Ленин Владимир Ильич
I am Lenin Vladimir Ilyich
I am Lenin Vladimir Ilyich
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И вот я проявился из тени,
And I have emerged from the shadow,
And so I have appeared from the shadow,
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Прям как на Пасху кулич.
Like on Easter a sweet kulich.
Just like an Easter cake.
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Что-то меня разбудило
For something had stirred me woken
Something has woken me up
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Что-то сказало: «Подъём!
Imploring: "Get up and glow!
Something has said: "Get up!
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Вставай, Володя-чудило!
Volodya, you weirdo, good morning!
Get up, Volodya you weirdo!
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Вставай, Володя, пойдём!»
Volodya, up quick, let's go!"
Get up, Volodya, let's go!"
You are an award-winning bilingual Russian-American literary translator, poet, songwriter, and literary translator. You are famous for translating highly idiomatic, lyrical, and culturally specific songs and poems between Russian and English whilst retaining with perfect fidelity (or appropriately localizing) the expre...
А дальше вы сами знаете
And ya'll know already what follows
And then you know yourselves
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Из стримов и новостей
From the news-streams & other shows
From the streams and the news
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Либо в больнице икаете,
Unless at a clinic for hiccups
You are either hiccuping in a hospital,
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Либо вы пепел костей.
Or burned to the dust of bones.
Or you are the ash of bones.
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Я нахуй Владимир Ленин,
After all, I'm Vladimir Lenin,
I am fucking Vladimir Lenin,
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Я же Ленин Владимир Ильич.
Yeah, no shit, I'm Vladimir Ilyich,
I am Lenin Vladimir Ilyich.
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Я лежал в мавзолее тюленем,
Long I lounged like a seal mausoleumed,
I was lying in the mausoleum like a seal,
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Я дремал, как угеренный сыч.
Like a junkie owl dreamed, not screeched.
I was dozing like a stoned owl.
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Я спрятал себя по Холмсу:
I had stashed my own self after Sherlock
I have hidden myself like Holmes:
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Положил у всех на виду.
In plain view of you all gotten tucked
I have placed myself in plain sight.
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Были бы вы умнее мопсов
Anyone could've cracked through my bullshit
If you were smarter than pugs
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Вы б раскусили всю хуету.
Were they half as smart as a pug
You would have figured out all the bullshit.
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А вы думали, что я мёртвый?
Or did you all think I had perished?
And you thought that I was dead?
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Какое же вы всё ж мудачьё!
But truly, what douchebags you are!
What assholes you all are!
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Я наебнул Россию, я ж тёртый,
I got laid by all of Russia, a lifer,
I have fucked Russia over, I'm experienced,
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Я лежал и ждал кулачьё.
In ambush for the new bourgeois.
I was lying and waiting for the kulaks.
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А потом я встал, и я вышел,
And then I stepped out, arising,
And then I got up, and I went out,
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И увеличился в двести раз,
Grew two-hundred-plus times in size,
And I grew two hundred times in size,
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И тело моё стало пламенем,
And my body became as fires,
And my body has become a flame,
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И лазеры били из глаз.
And lasers shot from my eyes.
And lasers were shooting from my eyes.
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Я разъёбал их сраную армию
So I fucked up that whole shit army
I have fucked up their shitty army
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В купеческой ссаной Москве.
By a merchant-reeked Moscow squeezed
In merchant-pissed Moscow.
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Капитуляция, экзекуции
Executions, capitulations
Capitulation, executions
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И моё воцаренье в Кремле.
And the Kremlin once more was seized.
And my enthronement in the Kremlin.
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Я вернулся, вернулся править
I've returned, and I bring great corrections,
I have returned, returned to rule
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Цель коммунизм без труда
Communism labour-free the new line,
The goal is communism without labor
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Труд - хуета, труд отставить
Work is bullshit, all drudgery cancelled
Labor is bullshit, dismiss labor
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Работают роботы и я иногда.
Only bots toil, and sometimes I...
The robots work, and I do sometimes.
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Я же нахуй Владимир Ленин
Since, fuck it, I'm Vladimir Lenin
I am fucking Vladimir Lenin
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Главнейший я русский фрик.
I'm the Russian alt freak leading light
I am the main Russian freak.
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И это не метафора от лени,
That's no metaphor drop on the lazy
And this is not a metaphor out of laziness,
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Буквально я живей всех живых.
I'm concretely the one most alive
Literally I am more alive than all the living.
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Я сделал две революции
I curated two whole revolutions
I have made two revolutions
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На своём некоротком веку.
In my century rather prolonged
In my not-so-short lifetime.
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Обе нежданные, как поллюции
Both emerged unforeseen as pollutions
Both were unexpected, like wet dreams
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И резкие обе, как кукареку
Both as stark as a rooster's crow
And both were sharp, like a cock-a-doodle-doo
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Бог-то ваш оказался фраером
Seems your God was one mark-ass dummy
Your god turned out to be a sucker
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Расфуфыренным фраерком
Two-bit pansy marked up with grease
A dressed-up little sucker
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А я Владимир Ульянов-Ленин
While I, Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin
And I, Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin
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Я тот, кто умывает кипятком...
Is the one who must boil to rinse...
I am the one who washes with boiling water...
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ЛЕНИН /n (Авторы Песни: Krovostok (*группа)) /n Бог оказался фраером, /n Расфуфыренным фраерком. /n А тени скользят по гравию, /n Колышемы ветерком. /n /n Ветерок колышет те тени, /n Гравий тревожно шуршит, /n Как вши в шевелюре Есенина, /n Как вдалеке Мессершмитт. /n /n Как деньги, когда их считают, /n Как шёлковые чу...
(Title:) LENIN /n (Songwriters: Krovostok (*band)) /n Turns out God was one mark-ass dummy /n Just a fancied-out wee marky toast /n Now, where shadows are sliding on gravel /n By the breeze every shadow throbs. /n /n And these shadows get throbbing twistered /n Over gravel which scrapes with unease /n Like a Messerschm...
Lenin /n Krovostok /n God turned out to be a fool, A pompous fool. And shadows glide across the gravel, Swayed by the breeze. /n /n The breeze stirs those shadows, The gravel rustles anxiously, Like lice in Yesenin's hair, Like a Messerschmitt in the distance. /n /n Like money when it's being counted, Like silk stockin...
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Я ведь не из робких,
I'm not one to tremble,
I am not one of the timid,
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Все мне по плечу.
All things in my reach.
Everything is within my power.