On the ground, always under water or snow
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There are roads that hardly anyone walks on
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There the madman will sometimes move across the sky
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To the people on the boat
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Calling out that it flies
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And they catch him in the net
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Among the fields and backwaters there are white cities
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Where they trade horses, silk and sulfur
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A clear monastery rises above the market square
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Chorals and gurgling
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Icon and horse
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Snaffle and golden hand
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Chains and sickles on the walls of the inn
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Wesołek pats his thighs and sings
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O people who live with joy, although they suffer;
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And someone laughs
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Someone treats him with vodka
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Before someone else calls the wetboys
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With his tongue torn out, let him jump at will
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Like a fool who cannot utter words
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Because the Prince of the cloisters, with a falcon-like eyesight
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He must guard the realm
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From fire and evil
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To make the people feel that someone cares about him
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And the Prince - patron of art, is lost
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So he tells me to paint the walls of the palace
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The journeyman already paints and breaks down brushes
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And there are guards at the door
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And the Prince's voice is:
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- A sword or a purse for your work
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The architect, what this palace built for me
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Nothing is more beautiful to anyone
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When the adventure was over, he was sad:
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The thugs in the woods
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How once he saw it
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And they stuck out his eyes
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And the prince laughed until the hall thundered
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And she thundered as he went away, like a peacock
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And I was standing in front of a wall that was so white
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Like what was putting her on
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The face was blinded
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She turned red with tears before her
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I was kneeling in front of the white, bent over the Scriptures
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When this insane whore came
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She read my icons with movements of her hands
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And she laughed at the crowds
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She cried for God
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And the fire terrified her hell
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And flames arose on all sides at once
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Columns of smoke rose towards the sky
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In the doorway I can see a horse's mouth and a smile of Tatar
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What the prince's head proud
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He shakes his hair
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And the Prince's blood runs down his mustache
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The girl screams, so he laughs
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And the church garments are thrown at her feet
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And she puts on them, turns around
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And her tear is already dry
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So she dances in thanks
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At the saddle, by the prince's head
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Who fought, the one who was watered with golden boiling water
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Sheets from church domes, from books melted with fire
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It collapses between the hooves and the feet
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Staring down at
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Into the veiled face of God
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And he asks how to love the enemy
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Again we pushed the bodies to common pits
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Again, the ways of the cross without the cross and the scarf -
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After the storm, at dusk, on the river of ashes
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Pagan indulgences;
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The laughter of blood and flesh plays
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The flames come together in pairs
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From this land that does not skimp on the living
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The best clay for bells is
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Today I am rubbing paints from this earth in their sound
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To my icon
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On a dry board
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There is room for the world and for the Creator
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Drenched, like a tree standing in the rain
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The horse bows down, the water runs down its hair;
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Rotten greens and gold on the board
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Who cries alive -
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It is the Creator's Crown
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They are waiting for him
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Horse and Icon |