Таможенный Блюз [Tamozhennyj blyuz] [English translation]

I was born at the Customs,

When I fell down on the floor.

My dad was a dealer,

Another dad: Interpol.

The third dad was Dzerzhinsky1,

The fourth dad is cocaine;

Since they're in the Mausoleum, mama,

I left all by myself again.

I have two phases, mama,

I’m drunk as a King of Greece2.

When I’m sober, I’m mute as Gerasim3, mama;

For now, I’m War and Peace.

I’m stoned whole day,

Twelve years feeling this tug.

Don’t breath when I'm entering:

I’m a poisonous drug.

My heart is a suit of cards,

My blood's diethylamide4;

Stop staring at me,

Or you will end up being extinct.

I have two phases, mama,

I’m drunk as a King of Greece.

When I’m sober, I’m mute as Gerasim, mama;

For now, I’m War and Peace.

On south there is a rabid cactus,

Taiga and tundra on North;

Both have shamans, mama,

But I’m a shaman by birth –

I always stay inside astral,

When out I’m strictly on booze;

There are many high substances to hassle,

So I group them all with a noose.

I have two phases, mama,

My homeland is ether of streets;

When I’m sober, I’m mute as Gerasim, mama;

For now, I’m War and Peace.

1. aka "Iron Felix" was head of the Cheka, the first secret police of Soviet Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky2. "Emir of Bukhara" in the original; consonant with Russian slang verb "бухать" - drink heavily.3. Deaf and mute character from the classic short story by Ivan Turgenev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumu_(Turgenev)4. LSD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide.