Notes:
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- The verses are played like the second verse, the rest - like the first.
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Lanterns… lanterns… lanterns, lanterns,
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Like pale faces circling in the fog.
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From dawn to dawn I say goodbye to you,
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Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad.
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There is silence on Heaven. |
In the black mirror of waters
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With the passage of time, the city floats.
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Floats into the sunset, or maybe into the sunrise,
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Despite everything, he swims and swims.
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This city is like an old broken ship
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There is rust on the frames, a hole in the bottom.
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And on the broken fingers of steel anchors,
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I am reading the story of your life.
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There on the decks of your proud squares
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I drank the intoxicating air of eternal white nights.
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There I kissed the masts of the rastral columns,
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So where did you turn the wheel, crazy.
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And a free white butterfly night
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The sharp bacon of Petropalovskaya sewed to the sky,
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And Peter's ship was exhausted,
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Twisted his whirlwind, twirled, twirled.
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And I circled with him, and shouted, and flew,
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And suddenly, through trembling in the middle of the night, he received his sight.
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And to the salty pillow with an unshaven cheek
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Pressing tiredly, I found peace.
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I understood the luxury of facades and backs of poverty,
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I understood, the city, that I had chosen the wrong road.
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Flying into the constellation of alien lanterns,
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I leave the ship, now it's nobody's.
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To Petersburg, to Petrograd, to Leningrad, to nowhere
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Isakiya's dome flies over me.
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My ark is sailing away, goodbye, friends,
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I'm sorry, I can't stay.
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Bridges are being built there, I'm afraid not to be in time,
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Fly away like a white bow into the white night.
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Doubts can overcome me again
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And don't let me dare to fly away, fly away.
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To Petersburg, to Petrograd, to Leningrad, to nowhere
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My prophetic dreams will suddenly pull back
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Strings of my restless days.
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The nostalgia of the nights is getting stronger and stronger.
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And again lanterns, lanterns, lanterns,
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Like pale faces... in the mist of dawn.
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I say goodbye to you, Petersburg, Petrograd,
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My handsome, broken ship-Leningrad. |