| The time of the river has a winding course,
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| Now a violent rift, then a backwater in the reeds.
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| And what's ahead is planned on the course
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| Not a single living soul knows.
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| The time of the river has demonic habits -
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| If it storms, then there is no salvation in it.
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| Look how many years have passed, and we live with an eye
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| To the towers of the Magadan camps.
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| Chorus:
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| Do not promise - life will raise the bar,
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| Do not judge - fate changes color.
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| My grandfather spent two hours in the basement on Lubyanka
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| And he became gray-haired in less than thirty years.
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| We ruined the state in the whirlpool of the river,
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| Cutting down the double-headed eagle to the goldfinch.
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| And again we build life according to the new charter,
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| Swearing Russia in three throats.
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| Of course - it's time to call lawlessness to order,
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| Everyone is talking about it and making a face,
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| But they pay for the words with a soldier's oath,
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| And the blood of innocent boys is shed.
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| Chorus:
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| Do not promise - life will raise the bar,
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| Do not judge - fate changes color.
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| My grandfather spent two hours in the basement on Lubyanka
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| And he became gray-haired in less than thirty years.
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| Specific leaders and rogue prophets
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| Flicker here and there over the seething waters.
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| And with them all the people along a narrow channel
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| Sailing towards the unknown.
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| But we have what we build ourselves,
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| Until we overcome fear in our soul.
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| There they say again, they say clouds over the country,
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| And it's just a sky in the clouds...
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| And it's just a sky in the clouds...
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| And it's just a sky in the clouds... |