Translation of the song lyrics Эмигрант - Green Grey

Эмигрант (original)

Голос тих, остался хрип
Свет сквозь стены мягко постелил
У ворот сидит старик
Выход в рай условно сохранил
Эмигрант увидел мир
Overtime давно прошел
Перепутал час и миг
Тонких линий не нашел
Заметал следы молвой
Был готов пустить лису на воротник
Растворился каплей в молоке
Руки умывал потом речной водой
Эмигрант увидел мир
Overtime давно прошел
Перепутал час и миг
Тонких линий не нашел
Эмигрант увидел мир
Overtime давно прошел
Перепутал час и миг
Тонких линий не нашел
Перепутал час и миг
Тонких линий не нашел
Не нашел
Не нашел

Эмигрант (translation)

My voice is hushed—a rasp remains, an ember’s trace,
Light filtered soft through walls, unfurling sheets of dawn,
An elder lingers at the gate, a relic in his place,
The portal to Elysium—conditional, withdrawn.
Exile’s eyes beheld the world’s unfurling scroll,
Overtime faded into the cobwebbed dusk of years,
I blurred the hour with the instant, miscounting the toll,
No slender veins of meaning did I find—nor clear.
I swept my tracks with rumor’s breath, in riddled snow,
I’d let the fox become a collar for my weary coat,
Dissolving in the milk—a single drop, I go,
My hands washed clean by river water’s note.
Exile’s eyes beheld the world’s unfurling scroll,
Overtime faded into the cobwebbed dusk of years,
I blurred the hour with the instant, miscounting the toll,
No slender veins of meaning did I find—nor clear.
Exile’s eyes beheld the world’s unfurling scroll,
Overtime faded into the cobwebbed dusk of years,
I blurred the hour with the instant, miscounting the toll,
No slender veins of meaning did I find—nor clear.
I blurred the hour with the instant, miscounting the toll,
No slender veins of meaning did I find—nor clear.
Did not find—
Did not find—