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Dmitry Bykov - Вторая смерть (Vtoraya smertʹ) Лирицс транслатион то енглисх


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Second death

Life is a shame, holding on is inane
Not enough good things, but as the end nears
You will be mourning this life all the same
Let me look back to devalue its meaning
 
Let me come back from those pearly gates
Steal just an hour while on the deathbed
Feels like it’s not enough to have one death
I need the second
 
Dying just once, looking back from that peak
Everything’s looking so boring and helpless
Clouded windows, shrubs with no leaves
Dirty containers, quarters, and vessels
 
Just like the movies, a villain’s demise
Is never simple or quick as one hopes
But a result of some intricate fights
Losing an arm or an eye in the process
 
Or take for instance abandoning home
Even when there are reasons aplenty
Torture, arrest or whatever may come
Better to not have on the first attempt still
 
It would be great to return for an hour
Into these faceless and chilly apartments
To see how different all the things are
Oddly, they’re not as somebody would ponder
 
Just to observe the thickening snow
The suffocating annoyance of winter
Hour’s enough to get on the road
Motherland’s call disregarding completely
 
Let me look back at the gloomy abyss
Pleading for mercy, rejection, and fear
Wait, is this really what I had missed?
To hell with everything! Farewell, dear.
 
The trick, it seems to me, that after death
No point in arguing, really, who cares?
Thoughts of your motherland, street, and address
Loose their value like second-hand wears
 
Like the regard for pre-war little things
Trivial things, like a jacket or letter
The inescapable feeling of guilt
Will disappear at last and forever
 
Sneaking a peek at the scandal at work
The dump, the snitches, the lasses, the wages
Dear Lord, is this what I hungered for?
This life and country? Damn it for ages!
 
I have moved on, but surroundings didn’t
Same squeaky bed in the next-door apartment
If I come back in one thousand years
Same boring neighbor will nod at me calmly
 
The same teenager will amble along
Weather-permitting, in slippers or waders
Except his new fucking cellular phone
Will be a little more sophisticated
 
I think one life is enough as it is
Seeking the death number two and beyond that
Something unusual, different bliss
Feeling that lights in the next room are lit
But I don’t dare to look any closer
 


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22.10.2024

Speak to Him





You're a friend and I know it,
I trust you and therefore
if I ask you a favor,
you shouldn't say no,
you mustn't say no to me.
 

Then speak to him,
you who know everything about me.
Tell him that yesterday
I went out with you.
 

Speak to him,
you know what I did.
Please tell him
that I never lied to him.
 

Yes, I know you're sorry,
but it's your fault that he
this evening
didn't show up with me
and you already understood why.
 

And so speak to him,
make peace between us
and don't tell me,
don't tell me that you can't.
 

Oh, speak to him,
you know what I did.
Please tell him
that I never lied to him.
 

Whoa, whoa, whoa, speak to him,
you who know everything about me.
Tell him that yesterday
I went out with you.
 

Speak to him,
you know what I did.
Please tell him
that I never lied to him!
 


22.10.2024

Tonight You'll Hear a Song





Tonight you'll hear a song,
a song you already know.
The woman you no longer love will sing it,
the woman who will leave you but who won't cry.
 

A song that will tell you about me,
that will stay with you throughout your life,
a song be will leave a mark in your heart
that will never be erased.
 

Tonight I'll relive for the last time
these moments that I'll no longer find
but when I disappear and only you are found,
you'll cry because you'll remember.
 

A song that will tell you about me,
that will be with you throughout your life,
a song that will leave a mark in your heart
that will never be erased.
 

A song that will tell you about me,
that will be with you throughout your life,
a song that will leave a mark in your heart
that will never be erased.
 


22.10.2024

A Reflection in the Water





It was
a moonlit evening,
under the bridge the river slept
and a woman sang.
 

Clear,
the water slipped away
and the image of your smile
the river mirrored.
 

A reflection in the water,
a reflection in the water,
a reflection in the water,
the current passed
but nothing remained,
but I inside my mind
still see you.
 

It was
a moonlit evening,
your voice spoke
and the river silently listened.
 

And it was,
almost a year has passed
but every evening I return to look
into the river to dream.
 

A reflection in the water,
a reflection in the water,
the current passed
but nothing has changed,
the water slowly stops,
I still see you.
 

A reflection in the water,
a reflection in the water,
the current passed
but nothing has changed,
the water slowly stops,
I still see you.
 


22.10.2024

A Family





Evening will come,
you'll return home
and without a word, you'll sit at the table
in your place as always.
 

Then when you have finished,
you'll tell us kids:
leave me alone and glue your eyes
for an hour on the newspaper.
 

But read inside the eyes
of mom what is there.
Notice that she wants
to talk a bit with you.
 

You cannot call life
this life you give her
if you have nothing left
to share with her.
 

I know that you are not wicked,
that deep down you love her.
Don't make her pay for the usual bitterness that
life gives you.
 

You think about your hopes
of a long time ago
starting when you wanted
to become who knows who.
 

But look that you are
someone at least among us,
you're not mistaken,
life is precisely this here.
 

When you come home,
bring a smile with you,
then we'll talk together, that way we'll become
at last a family,
a true family,
a true family.