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. |