Оставайся собой [Ostavaysya Soboy] [English translation]

How you have been loved, exalted, drowned down in wine

How you are rotting, beaten, beaten, hosed in shit. 1

It is a fight, that means there will be an end.

Don’t bend, don’t give up,

Don’t stop being yourself.

Fish are better off in a sea, but their days end on a platter. 2

Pigs wade through to become jellied meats, only people remain people. 3

It is a fight, that means there will be an end.

Don’t bend, don’t give up,

Don’t stop being yourself.

Time pushes on, pursuing with an invisible hand,

You take off, you dive, you don’t know who you are.

It is a fight, that means there will be an end.

Don’t bend, don’t give up,

Don’t stop being yourself.

1. For those who say Andrey is poetic, remember that his music can be, but a lot of times he is just rebellious.2. Fish are served on a plate (typically) and that plate will be their death. It rounds the line off, contrasting life of fish being better but bringing up mortality3. Yet again, another metaphor about the brutality of humans, how they turn an animal into its parts, and yet we stay the same.