Worn out by life, homeless,
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Wandering across the bridge from Leninsky to Frunza.
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Tiredly hunched over, he is like Burlak
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He pulled his cart with simple belongings
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Away from autumn, to the side
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Most High Augustus, without end and edge.
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Where it smells of departed trains
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And watermelon rinds.
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I went to meet him, and when our
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Eyes crossed, he suddenly stopped,
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Looked into my eyes and muttered, addressing
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And to me, and to all things in general:
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Chorus:
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Summer burned down, brother, like gunpowder.
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Passed love, withered tomatoes.
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And flies by in a broken-down ambulance
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A life…
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Summer burned out, brother, instantly.
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Taking Jim, Mark and Amy with them
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And now, instead of knee-deep seas
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Gloom, decay, garages!
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This Man's words expressed a concentrated
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Sorrow for everything that happened to him in life.
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He was untidy, but very melodic and wise.
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Like Charles Bukowski playing the blues
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And I would live somewhere in a remote Russian province.
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We stood opposite each other and were silent.
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Suddenly he asked for a smoke.
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I took out a pack of Kent and handed it to him.
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Releasing clouds of thick bluish smoke with an admixture
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The bitterness of broken hopes, dragging on,
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As the homeless man continued for the last time:
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It got lost in bars and appointments,
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In the smoke of cigarettes and cheap whiskey;
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In reserved seat cars, in the stories of taxi drivers
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The nights and days were confused.
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The summer was small and rainy -
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He, as always, was not enough for anything,
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But even if it happened again -
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He would have been fucked anyway!
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Eee!
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We stood on this bridge for a few more minutes.
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And then they parted, who goes where.
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I wandered along the rays of the last
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Warm sun to Moscow and kept thinking about this meeting.
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I thought about how time passed in childhood
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So slowly that sometimes I wanted to climb the wall.
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And now it flies faster and faster and is already measured
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Not for hours and days, but for whole seasons and years.
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Time is spinning into a crazy spiral, and we
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We slide along it, increasing the pace and not noticing
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How one summer after another passes.
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And with him - and a whole life ...
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Chorus:
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Summer burned down, brother, like gunpowder.
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Passed love, withered tomatoes.
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And flies by in a broken-down ambulance
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A life…
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Summer burned out, brother, instantly.
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Taking Jim, Mark and Amy with them
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And now, instead of knee-deep seas
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Gloom, decay, garages! |