| Kitchens of different sizes and shapes,
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| View from the window at the metal forest,
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| Gray loopholes pouring chloroform,
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| White moon poverty and brilliance.
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| By batteries, by batteries
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| Mice rustle, covering their tracks,
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| I lantern, I lantern
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| When whales swim along the Neva.
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| We are no longer in the perspective of the window,
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| There are only future suns rosin hail,
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| And again spring turns into an encore
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| To the city of bars, my city of fences.
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| Along the parapets, along the parapets
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| Bullets are knocking, beating off the motive,
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| The song is finished, the song is finished,
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| The word fluttered and the city fell silent.
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| Chorus:
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| Nights without soft signs
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| Silent men's nights
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| How you want to be, how you want to be
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| At least by someone other than yourself.
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| Trains in monks' belts,
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| Crossings like dots
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| How you want to live, how you want to live
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| Not loving very much.
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| This case - apparently, something happened,
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| This case - apparently, something happened,
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| This case - apparently, something happened to me.
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| The procession of days through the nasty mud,
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| Life buys us a gun on credit, |