Комната [Komnata] [English translation]

White noise on the monitor of the dusty window

Will tell us

That a war has bloomed

Behind the wall in the corridor.

But you are not armed.

Don’t get out.

Don’t make a mistake.

It’s hell behind the door,

Hot and sticky.

Don’t get out

Of the room.

You are not gonna like it.

Don’t walk out

Of the room.

Trust me, it’s not France out there.

Lock yourself in with me.

Let the Ilyich’s light bulb 1 be our sun.

Whenever you want you can turn it off.

You read2 Brodsky,3

And I know how to be silent.

Just like that, be silent by heart.

Don’t get out.

Out there everything is following the old scheme.

Don’t walk out.

Forget about time.

Don’t get out

Of the room.

You are not gonna like it.

Don’t walk out

Of the room.

Trust me, it’s not France out there.

Lock yourself in with me.

Even if it’s not like that at all

And there is an eternal spring behind the window,

And you can fly freely out there,

Freer than within four walls,

Even it it’s not like that at all

And the whales are singing for you behind the window

And the stars are smiling at the flowers,

But I beseech you, don’t get out.

Don’t get out

Of the room.

You are not gonna like it.

Don’t walk out

Of the room.

Trust me, it’s not a France out there.

Lock yourself in with me.

1. The leader of Russian revolution of 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a great proponent of electrification of entire USSR in the early 1920s. One of the symbols of this movement was a simple light bulb, called “the Ilyich’s bulb”2. ”You know” in the original3. Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American dissident poet, who was expelled from Soviet Union. This song’s lyrics refer to the parts of his famous poem “Don’t get out of the room”