| Are you on a train, in a car,
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| Or you walk, sipping wine,
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| With modern machine abundance
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| It is difficult to go through life to the end.
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| Here's an accident in Zamoskvorechye -
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| Three were taken to bury one.
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| Everyone, including the driver, was injured,
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| Only the one in the coffin - nothing.
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| Women for hire sobbed through their teeth,
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| Deacon - and he did not take the top note,
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| Loudly out of tune copper pipes -
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| Only the one who didn't lie in his grave.
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| Former boss and secret robber
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| He kissed his forehead and spat squeamishly.
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| Everyone kissed, and only the dead man
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| So he didn't kiss anyone.
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| But thunder struck. |
| You won't write anything
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| The forces of nature don't care about speeches.
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| Everyone ran under the slabs and roofs,
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| Only the dead man did not run away.
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| What does it rain! |
| It won't get worse from him.
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| Here, the living hardening is not the same.
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| Well, the dead are former people -
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| Brave people - and we are not like.
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| No matter how fast you are, they are ahead of you.
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| Adhesive label, like a mark on the forehead,
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| And nothing threatens you
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| Only when you are in an oak coffin.
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| It can be in a separate, or it can be in a common -
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| The housing problem does not take the dead.
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| Well done, this very deceased,
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| Doesn't require any extra hassle.
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| In the realm of shadows, in this strict society,
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| There are no dangers, no worries.
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| Well, what about you? |
| We all walk under God.
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| Only to whom there is nothing in the coffin.
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| I hear all around: he praises the dead!
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| No, I'm offended by our fate.
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| Someday someone will crush us all,
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| Except for those in the coffin. |