Песня о времени [Pesnya o vremeni] [English translation]

Time to throw out stones passed by

Time to gather voices arrived

If every life's now numbered as thy

Then very few of time's left about

Groznyj hosts time, so does MoscOw :

Speed of online, hour of namaz...

Instants that go cold down in NevA...

Culture of Bronze, Centennial Gas...

All these big blocks aggregate all the rivers -

So by block's window, while smoking, i stand -

Here i witness how transfers to sleeping

unquantifiably complex my land

When days are happy who're you bound to judge ?

In waiting for mirracle all are equalled

Time to take stand for those you love

Without pricing your bout

I stand by the window erasing my memory,

Observing how time indigests my city :

How things that were perfect, now grossly destroyed,

In gArbage come to join our pity

Phalanging rainfalls, peltasting fogs

Desperately trying to bring about births;

Waters that go out of rusted faucets

Extracting from abyss the human facets

Each homeless "bomzh" - Ecclesiastes -

Observing our moves in our daily routines

And everyone will get what they deserveth

From He to Whom time simply does not exist.

In troubled days we're troubled with time

Masses of truth but non-existant feedstock

Time of Che during Grand Fools' epoch

Infectious time, time of porn talk

What is time, and what is it's meaning ?

Thinking at road's end of beginning...

i stand by my window and smoke feelings:

you're right : all this has too much of sorrow

Observing the time smithing out billions

Fierceness of doubts, pride of desires -

hearts get exploded like funny petardes

blasted by pressure of strained-in roads

Time erks into you nearly unnoticed

it doesn't care for crying of speeches

but it is wildly soft and gentle

and you are right - it heals leaches

Time does not have what we call "limit"

time, my old friend, it just never sleeps

but i hope tonight no one buys a cry-ticket

and i pray for no one gets killed.

Sky respires

Sun it hears

Heart remembers

Sun - entires

Sun respires

Sky it hears

Heart - entires

Time remembers

(c) Balagutin A.I.