roots in the winter,
the warmness of my father
there's a strange kind of light
which often shines on me.
he knew how with his eyes
make believe he was happy
in the back end of his suburbs,
even in the his dark days.
i would have liked all of the gipsie's violines
to warm-up your soul,
to offer you all the women,
i would have liked the love and the vodka
to roar with laughter, to write a song for you.
i'm not tchaikovski'
it's just a melody.
to tell you about warsaw,
you won't have a symfony.
my father's customs,
all the things of yesterday,
the familly and the war
were just like landmarks.
i would have liked all of the gipsie's violines
to warm-up your soul,
to offer you all the women,
i would have liked the love and the vodka
to roar with laughter, to write a song for you.
alone, in the snow's immensity,
up-there, i know that you dance
surrounded by the silence.
i don't like your absence.
there is not big enough a book
for all my feelings;
i wanted to remain a child;
why did you go away?
i would have liked all of the gipsie's violines
to warm-up your soul,
to offer you all the women,
i would have liked the love and the vodka
to roar with laughter, to write a song for you.
i would have liked all of the gipsie's violines
to warm-up your soul,
to offer you all the women,
i would have liked the love and the vodka
to roar with laughter, to write a song for you.