Раневская [Ranevskaya] [English translation]

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.