| Only they were not and are not,
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| Only shadows flashed through the books
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| Hoffmann was drunk when he wrote this nonsense
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| In the morning, the shadows will disappear, taking away his strength.
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| There were notes on the cold table,
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| Remained pastel-colored paintings,
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| Shadows dissolved in light Aegean wine,
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| Souls sprouted hemp on the graves.
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| The evening dissolved the essence of proud verses,
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| The wind scattered the lonely sounds
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| You and I will go in the direction of dreams,
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| The mystic will set our hands with silver.
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| In Sanskrit, books about living gods,
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| In Greece, canisters of olive oil,
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| Outcasts pour vodka on their fear,
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| The signs of the Arabs show through the paint,
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| Nazi camouflage in the markets in price,
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| Black shirts, boots and flags
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| The cosmos will laugh in its depths,
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| Fat peasants will quietly die from mash.
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| And above our house there is a hole in the sky,
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| Through it, crystals of death fall into us,
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| Let's release our souls without a bottom,
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| Somewhere in the ocean they will be covered with corals,
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| Ghouls will drink all our love
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| And besides her, we have nothing left,
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| In an unfamiliar place we will not meet again,
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| Don't pity us, we don't need your pity.
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| Our laziness will lead us into the ruthlessness of words,
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| In the beauty of syllables and infinity of hardships,
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| Dead harpies in the sky so bright flight
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| They are like our songs after death in motion.
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| Only they were not and are not,
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| Only shadows flashed through the books
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| Hoffmann was drunk when he wrote this nonsense
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| In the morning the shadows will return back to the graves... |