MANticore
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Words and music: Andrey Korf, 2008
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korf
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I will tell you a story about how a boy
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Found myself a book. |
This book was
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About an animal that has no equal.
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The boy was a little magician, and every magician
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Plain paper comes to life in the hands -
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And the beast from the picture stepped onto the floor.
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You in this fairy tale neither gnaw, nor fly, nor sting
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You still don’t know how at all, but it’s a pity, because
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Both claws and wings are already anywhere.
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You wag the tail of a scorpion in this fairy tale,
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Not knowing that he is full of someone else's sorrow, and In your claws, the wrapper is just a disaster.
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Chorus:
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Sleep my manticore
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Sleep, dawn is coming soon
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Let my soul off the leash
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Let your heart tear your shroud
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Sleep, fold your wings
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Sleep, you see, I covered your claws with a blanket of notes, (roses, stars)
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The saddest and quietest...
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I'll tell you a story about how a boy became a husband
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And the kitten became a lion, how bitter and friendly
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The union of a monster and an eccentric.
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Does the beast lead the master, the master of the beast,
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But their world is one, and once measured,
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And even voiced by the string of the leash.
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In this tale you taught me to strike on the spot, and To fly over the solitaire huts, hardly A mortal could have a wiser teacher. |
In this fairy tale you taught me to sing in the forgotten
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People language, you knew, you were there,
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Where the remains of people and animals live...
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Chorus
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I'll tell you a fairy tale about a unicorn,
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Who was a miracle, and was touchy,
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Which is breath, which is spring.
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I fell in love with him, remember, so strongly and truly,
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That the gods in heaven are like thieves in a tavern,
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They whispered about more over a cup of wine.
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In this fairy tale you chopped it with a claw and a sting,
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And, barely alive, stumbling, he fled And returned again at the call of the fire,
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In this fairy tale, you only let him in on the threshold
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In order to sting, so be damned,
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How cursed am I, your master and slave. |