My memory - of a gloomy nature:
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I don't want to revive juicy delights,
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They did not feel her flute,
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The tambourine will not start
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A faint happiness scares her and scares her away.
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My memory is animated by mourning,
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But - not crying raised up despair,
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Only furious this shame
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What is wandering around the graves,
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Which the sticky mold of legends had grown up.
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If the thunderous rites are profane,
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If it is creeping up in shameful remains -
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It's not to have
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A bearing theme for a song,
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But that shame - be a spur - for the living
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II
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Voice II:
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At breakfast at the Tsaritsa
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The food is divided with the suta;
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The revelers are negotiating
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Who needs a bite and a scrap.
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To this Galician sex,
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Temu - wielkopolski gryz;
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The monarch is eating over the table
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Pork loin «Polonia á la russe»
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Choir:
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It will not decorate itself with a potter
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But it shines with a bloody sauce,
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Dies irae, dies irae
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The days of anger are coming upon her.
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Feast in the name of the Holy Trinity
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Enlightened autocrats
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Confirmed by a document
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What is the power of a treaty.
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Nothing like a full bowl
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To the diplomatic game,
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Although a dubious delicacy on it:
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Polish cabbage heads.
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Choir:
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They will bend over them soon
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To bleed them
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Dies irae, dies irae
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The days of anger are coming upon her.
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Polish inn still drunk
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From his insane quarrels,
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Poland of the lord and the parish priest
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Immersed in the rude buzz.
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Byzantine splendor on it
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Asian dirt on it.
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So three pairs of hands are sticky
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And triple feeds with hunger.
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Choir:
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Nobody can put a crayon on her
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He will not shed a tear over her
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Dies irae, dies irae
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The days of anger are coming upon her.
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III
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Voice II:
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Sleep well, fathers and mothers
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Our "I" - what is so blurred today.
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Already beyond you lives cases
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And the choice between salvation and punishment.
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You don't have to worry about anything anymore
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Afflicted by life - weave sorrow for death.
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It is a strange legacy that time choked out,
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Not convertible into any currency.
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Choir:
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Sleep - you beyond good, beyond evil
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Requiem.
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Voice I:
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Sleep well - betrayed, sent,
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The meat of the epics whining for meaning;
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Destroyers, keepers of invisible borders
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Marked by the majesty of disasters.
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Don't let screeching tattoos wake you up,
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Parades, drums, anniversary masses;
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Gray - lead consciences - soldiers,
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A rattling in the memory box, at the bottom!
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Choir:
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Sleep - already beyond good, beyond evil
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Requiem.
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Voice II:
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Sleep well - faithful to hidden betrayals,
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For a little fear of my pride bought,
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Penal leaseholders of the cemetery governorate,
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Hetman's maces, episcopal rings.
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No one will disgrace your graves today;
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The final judgment is distant, uncertain,
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Countless forgetfulness of the road,
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God kind, man - briefly angry.
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Choir:
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Sleep - beyond good again, beyond evil
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Requiem.
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Voice I:
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Sleep well - wise men,
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Jugglers of the light, so helplessly great
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That they can't even be surprised
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When a noble pain shines in the dark with decay.
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You all knew best in advance
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But they failed to prevent anything:
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Loaded weapons - what will not fire,
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Because it is supposed to hang on the wall as a decoration.
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Choir:
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So sleep, beyond good, beyond evil
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Requiem.
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Voice II:
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And you sleep peacefully, shapeless crowd
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Illiterates with dislocated necks
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Whose horror he will never understand
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A wise man, a warrior, a convict and a traitor.
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Sleep, because you also thought, fought and also cheated;
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Why would you be better than this big man
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For whom man, faith, reason, power
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Only to serve them - it serves!
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Voice I and II:
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Sleep hindered by good, driven by evil
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Requiem.
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IV Choir:
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We are - who we are
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We were - what we were
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Let us lift this truth about ourselves
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In this short moment given to us.
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We will be - whatever we want
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As long as we know - what to want,
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But - we don't know - what we don't know
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So we don't have - what we want to have.
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We could, what is not allowed
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What is allowed - we don't want to be.
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We prefer bondage to freedom
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In which there is nothing to beat your head against.
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So we will be - what we were,
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So we are - and as if we are missing
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In this short moment given to us,
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Which will not be tomorrow anyway ...
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Voice I:
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What is in scarlet, in the casemates,
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What is in the hoods and in the strings,
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What is in the carriages and in the ropes
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Choir:
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Lacrimosa.
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We don't have hands - we have paws,
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We have no heads - we have heads.
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Therefore, scraps for us,
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Therefore, after us - tears.
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Voice II:
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The one in a proud pose and the one in humility,
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What in the barracks and in the nightmares,
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What in the skies and in the camps -
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Choir:
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Lacrimosa.
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We have no dreams - but dreams,
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We have no thoughts - but frenzy,
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Therefore, any fate,
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That is why the voice is weeping as it has sobbed.
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Voice I:
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This - the golden grain, the - the blade of the knife.
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Including - a trail on a runner, the - slime of the wilderness,
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This - God's grace, this - fearful terror
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Choir:
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Lacrimosa.
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We have no faith but delusions
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For our history - a collection of klechd.
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Therefore, the hardships will continue
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Our own cry and laughter at us. |