07.07.2018
Galina
I travelled the world many years,but happiness I never found.
No children, wife or anything
and my troubled soul knows no rest.
I saw many countries and towns,
found strength to walk around the earth,
yet my first love, like a burden
weighed heavily on my heart.
(chorus)
A guelder-roseViburnum family. It sounds close to galina (kalina) in Russian' href='#footnote1_7n5yyjq' rel='nofollow'>1 grows near the house,
it grows and blooms over my grief.
And in this house Galina lives,
in this place I shall never reach.
And in this house Galina lives,
in this place I shall never reach.
Remember, Galia, this soldier2
who couldn't wait for your letters?
A friend told you about that girl3,
and you believed his lying words.
I tried many years to forget,
wore my feet down roaming the world,
but ridding myself of my love
this would remain beyond my strength.
(chorus)
And now a vicious crow circles
above my temples turned grey.
I have met bright, strong and young gals,
but none that would have been your match.
Though our younger years are now gone,
our happiness still awaits us.
I will come back, I know I will.
So would you wait, please wait for me?
- 1. Not exactly the same species, but that's the prettiest name I found in the family. It sounds close to 'galina' (kalina) in Russian
- 2. lit. 'when I went to the army'
- 3. '...I had met there'
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