1.
Come sit with me gray hair, gray hair.
Silvered my head, then stilled the air.
As Ranevskaya performed - I couldn't go there.
[bridge]
Will you write me letters?
You will write me letters!
Let me finish my smoke, let me down a drink to you.
Resistance is pointless!
[refrain]
Why did I let go your hand? Why, tell me?
There, where play ends, real life begins.
To feel nothing - I will pretend to be a statue of clay.
People, I ask for one thing: bury me under the plinth.
To feel nothing - let me finish my smoke, my drink.
But mama, I beg of one thing: bury me under the plinth.
2.
Don't, I'm alone, I'm alone
For you, for all, with everyone, but alone.
Behind the window is my true friend, moon,
Servant of loneliness.
[bridge]
Will you write me letters?
You will write me letters!
Let me finish my smoke, let me down a drink to you.
Resistance is pointless!
[refrain]
Why did I let go your hand? Why, tell me?
There, where play ends, real life begins.
To feel nothing - I will pretend to be a statue of clay.
People, I ask for one thing: bury me under the plinth.
To feel nothing - let me finish my smoke, my drink.
But mama, I beg of one thing: bury me under the plinth.
3.
The clock has stopped, midnight not rung,
The friends are gone, the ones that lied.
Tragicomedy - encore and crown
Curtain slowly falling down.
I did not act, I lived this whole play
The way I could. Why?
[refrain]
Why did I let go your hand? Why, tell me?
There, where play ends, real life begins.
To feel nothing - I will pretend to be a statue of clay.
People, I ask for one thing: bury me under the plinth.
To feel nothing - let me finish my smoke, my drink.
But mama, I beg of one thing: bury me under the plinth.