| On Marat street
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| I was once happy
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| So many years have passed since then,
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| But all the guys remember
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| On Marat street,
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| That I had great authority.
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| In short pants
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| Throwing books into the desks,
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| Like in catacombs, they climbed into piles of firewood,
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| And in a new blue uniform
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| Tired precinct
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| Caught us in the web of attics.
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| The boy is reckless
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| I'm head over heels in love
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| I could wait for her at the entrance for hours,
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| And on winter nights
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| With cold hands
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| To sort out the chords of the steel strings.
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| Along Marata street
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| We walked in a shaggy crowd,
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| Bologna buttoned under the throat,
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| Everyone swore in eternal friendship
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| At the market on Kuznechny
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| Grandmothers in the potato row.
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| candy lamb,
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| I remember nights in kindergartens
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| Inside out pockets
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| I was born in Petrograd.
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| Three-meter fences
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| Dirty canary color,
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| Chased the precinct
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| Us from the blue benches.
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| On Nevsky, as on a pier,
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| Fishing around the clock:
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| Citizens exactly from the exhibition
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| Throwing rods.
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| Bologna cloaks crunch -
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| Deliveries abroad -
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| That ship "Estonia"
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| Moored in the harbor.
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| A blue ticket to the cinema,
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| Like a pass to a date
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| And there is an aspen leaf
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| Tannins tremble.
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| The front doors took pity on us
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| heated windowsill,
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| And elegant dresses
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| The school ones were unbuttoned. |
| (*)
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| We often remember the distant days when
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| Ride on the heels of luck,
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| They didn’t know the word “no”, they only wanted to hear “yes”,
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| And they believed divination at Christmas time.
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| We often remember our old yards,
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| And in the yards the grass is pattering -
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| How the communal apartments were jealous and kind to us,
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| When we were cleaning them.
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| Was it really? |
| Was it really?
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| Was it really? |
| so many years
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| Gone are those young days.
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| Powdered heads,
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| And mine was torn apart
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| Was it really that long ago?
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| We often remember our mothers cheerful laughter,
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| And the pain of hopes, and the first victories,
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| And in the telephone receiver through the blizzard and the crackle of interference
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| Native distant voice: "Darling, do you hear, food ..."
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| Our life changed along with the width of the trousers,
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| And coat hangers are back in fashion,
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| But if you look a little more carefully around,
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| That, my God, how everything has changed over the years!
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| Something is not fun for me
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| Something I can't sleep
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| Something doesn't feel right to me again.
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| I want to sing - not in song,
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| Do not run away from home
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| So, not everything in life
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| And everything is not by fate.
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| Oh, I missed the demonic nights,
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| When the guitars did not stop until the morning.
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| I missed the house manager's daughter -
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| Boy-woman from Gostiny Dvor.
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| Eh, I got bored a lot, to sadness,
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| About the fact that we were not lucky with Varya then,
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| I got bored that I landed in the wrong place,
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| And my corvette was cut into scrap a long time ago.
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| I missed the communal scenes -
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| There even Hamlet would know whether to be or not to be.
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| I missed the old fixed prices,
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| When at three o'clock I could drink and eat.
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| We are looking for a reflection in the bustle of the city,
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| But the streets sing other songs
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| And sometimes you don't want to go home again,
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| And on a white night over the Neva to wander all together ...
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| (*) Variant of the line: School children gathered dust on them. |