04.01.2021
Freedom
With a broken gun and a wooden sword,I saw my enemy, hiding behind the bushes.
The people have been craving the freedom for years,
But every time the way leads to slavery
Somebody is hanging a flag with force,
Someone is turning the flag, directing towards Mecca
Someone is hanging a gold cross around their neck,
Laughing and knowing delights of their margin
Righteous Ilya left this folk
Makhdi successor will not appear,
No matter how long he is waited
Nobody will gift us priceless freedom,
Even though you die, wearing kalyapush
Ivan the Terrible laughs being in hell,
Shah Gali Khan is clapping in jail
- ‘Wherever I breed, there is my generation’, he said.
- ‘I would be a real khan now’, he would say
Having seen the freedom in grave-clothes,
Old women who owned Maidan died.
There are only hungry crows in the poor country,
But we say ‘ if only there were not a war’
Righteous Ilya left this folk
Makhdi successor will not appear,
No matter how long he is waited.
Nobody will gift us priceless freedom,
Even though you die, wearing kalyapush
People of the fortuneless past say:
‘We have seen the poor.
We have seen poverty, deprivations and hardships.
They drink and swear - my native people.
And the future of these people is being sold today
What if there is something wrong on their way?
Or are the people are cursed?
‘ We are great folk!’,
Beating on the chest, they claim.
Tatars are walking back, to the dead end of history.
Righteous Ilya left this folk
Makhdi successor will not appear,
No matter how long he is waited.
Nobody will gift us priceless freedom,
Even though you die, crying and playing accordion