Карусель [Karusel] [Transliteration]

Ya kukla tryapichnaya, zabytaya v podvale

V kartonnoy korobke s nenuzhnym khlamom

Zachem mne kogda-to narisovali glaza?..

Ya – khrupkaya yelochnaya igrushka,

Zerkal'nyy shar s tvoim otrazhen'em

Ya – to, chto razbito… ya – to, chto ne skleish' nazad

Zvyezdy i pyestrye lenty na kolese

Mchitsya po krugu raznotsvetnaya karusel'

I nesyet eye vremya skvoz' okeany ognya…

Ya stoyu i smotryu, kak pronosyatsya mimo

Goroda, poezda, litsa… vsye neulovimo

Karusel' vrashchaetsya bez menya…

Ya – glupyy, bespechnyy solnechnyy zaychik,

Popavshiy sluchayno v ch'ye-to okno.

Ya plachu ot schast'ya, smeyus' bez prichiny.

Ya – malen'koe krasnoe plyushevoe serdtse, -

Podushechka dlya angliyskikh bulavok…

Nenuzhnyy podarok na Den' Valentina…

Zvyezdy i pyestrye lenty na kolese

Mchitsya po krugu raznotsvetnaya karusel'

I nesyet eye vremya skvoz' okeany ognya…

Ya stoyu i smotryu, kak pronosyatsya mimo

Goroda, poezda, litsa… vsye neulovimo

Karusel' vrashchaetsya neulovimo

Karusel' vrashchaetsya bez menya…

Ya – zhyeltye list'ya na shakhmatnoy doske,

Ostavlennoy kem-to v kholodnom parke,

Pokrytyy tvoimi sledami pribrezhnyy pesok

Ya – golub' bumazhnyy, zastryavshiy v derev'yakh

Isterzannyy vetrom, promokshiy ot snega

Ya – vyrvannyy iz knigi bumazhnyy listok…

Zvyezdy i pyestrye lenty na kolese

Mchitsya po krugu raznotsvetnaya karusel'

I nesyet eye vremya skvoz' okeany ognya…

Ya stoyu i smotryu, kak pronosyatsya mimo

Goroda, poezda, litsa… vsye neulovimo

Karusel' vrashchaetsya bez menya…