Я хочу быть с тобой [Ja hochu byt' s toboj] [English translation]

I've been running away from my love

I would take a straight razor

and shape my own self.

I would hide in a basement, while cutting

skin-leather-straps

put across all my weakening chest

==Refrain:

(but)I want to be with you

I want to be with you

Desperate, I yearn for you

and I will be with you

somewhere, in a white ceiling room

with a right for a hope.

Room with a view. City lights.

Believing in love.

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Your name was replaced

A long time ago

your beautiful eyes lost all their light.

Drunken doctor just told me-

you died, you'd been gone.

The fireman signed off the form -

your apartment burned down.

=refrain=

then I broke the glass

with my bare hands.

to cut all my fingers because

they could not touch your skin;

looked at all those faces,

and couldn't forgive

any of them: they could live,

even though you were gone

=refrain=