Джунгли [Dzhungli] [English translation]

Deep in the jungle,

When I'm back, when my work is done;

Deep in the jungle,

Where everyone knows that white is the soot;

Deep in the jungle,

Where they drink for the sake of it,

Since otherwise nothing's clear,

Where a single match is enough

To start an eternal fire.

When the night was a girl

And when every day was an ocean wave,

When no saucers ever entered my window

And when my words stayed by my side,

I said: enough, here's my body,

Here's my head and everything inside it.

While I'm alive, I want to see the world,

The one that can't be read about

In the jungle.

I want to see a doctor

With medicine in his clean hand,

Or a priest that I'll be able

To find a common language with,

I want to see the sky, the real one,

With this one being a small part of it,

And I'm coming back here,

There's a place to soar here, since there's also a place to fall

In the jungle.

And the grass is always greener

At the other side, while this one is but a jail,

As Maxim Gorky said to Cleopatra

When they were going crazy:

"If you want to save you sphinxes,

Bring them to our barnyard.

We know that the purpose of life

Is to give light to those who are in the darkness

Of the jungle."

So no need to call me,

The phone station is amidst the murrain.

Writing me letters will get you nowhere:

Here, letters are delivered by the thief.

He doesn't give a damn about words,

But still takes them, since it's in the blood;

While we write on the currency notes,

It's useless to send the letters of love

Here, to the jungle.

Deep in the jungle,

When I'm back, when my work is done;

Deep in the jungle,

Where everyone knows that white is the soot;

Deep in the jungle,

Where they drink for the sake of it,

Since otherwise nothing's clear,

Where a single match is enough

To start an eternal fire

In the jungle.