Lisa [English translation]

LISA our paper boats

In the big blue basin

Your first black eye pencils

You often used to say “We’ll live somewhere else”

I would run and hide

When I wanted you to cry

Some men still play

Like cruel children

Tonight Odessa sleeps beneath the sky

LISA it’s the same things everywhere

The vapour trails of planes

You’re just on the wrong side of the horizon

The only trains leaving

Are the suburban trains

You reach out your hands in vain

There’s all this emptiness in the middle

And your songs fall again

To the hotel pianos

While Odessa sleeps beneath the sky

There’s nothing left but your name

I imagine the sound of your voice

One day you’re sure to fly away

LISA soldiers watch over

The mail trucks

Your words come back from them all stripped bare…

Some men still play

Like cruel children

Tonight Odessa sleeps beneath the sky

I still have your name

I imagine the sound of your voice

One day you’re sure to fly away

LISA, hanging from the wings

of dissident birds