Давай притворимся [Davay pritvorimsya] [English translation]

Let's pretend the veil

reappeared in front of our eyes,

and somehow our conscience

rolled backwards.

All the accumulated experience was inadvertently lost.

We are blind again,

and our shoulders are itching for approbation slaps

from the grey crowd.

Let's pretend, let's pretend,

let's imagine we're blind again.

(chorus)

Casting a sober look back on the world

is painful to the eyes.

We all have fooled ourselves some day,

but we have forgotten forever

how to pretend.

Let's pretend that nothing depends on us.

Politics? What politics? This country has long ceased to be ours.

Here everything has been pillaged, bewitched, all is settled:

a crown for the tsar, and for Ivan, the slammer and a funeral wreath.

Let's pretend, let's pretend

our crown is a funeral wreath.

(chorus)

Let's pretend that war marches on inside our heads,

that money and vodka can make us happier,

that the cat doesn't suffer when her kittens are drowned.

Let's pretend these animals asked for this themselves.

Let's pretend, let's pretend

the animals asked for this.

(chorus)