Тентакли [Tentakli] [English translation]

[1]

There's a huddle near supermarket counters, bars are crowded

Even though this year is not at hand1 like a wart

Mice burrow under the floor

A face in a white window frame in the opposite house is like a polaroid

What a wild landscape: there're drunken shouts outside - chaos

Hipsters don't come here to buy vintage in a boutique

If someone looks up "Canning Town"2 on Wikipedia

They'll find an article that it's a huge shithole - Nicki Minaj3

The dead year is flying to a trash bin,

A well-paid job (where?) in a lost-and-found funeral home

I burnt bridges and before they had a chance to cool down I forgot about shame

Like in a convent

Tell me, how am I supposed to be cheerful?

Huh? All of you are such delicate creatures, aren't you?

You are all about films, Cannes, and famous plays

But there're icons and pentacles on the shelves of my cubicle

And I need whips, Japanese girls and tentacles to cum.

[Hook]

I got in on the move

And even if I'm gonna perish here -

There's a cross on my hunch

Flight is taboo

Reciting words

Not knowing to whom, [I'm a] Vagabund4

Until I take a vacant place in a tomb

I got in on the move

And even if I'm gonna perish here -

There's a cross on my hunch

Flight is taboo

Reciting words

Not knowing to whom, [I'm a] Vagabund

Until I take a vacant place in a tomb

[2]

Tschh...

There're boozers around, sounds of fights, and screams

Pushers sneak into neighborhoods like cats

Darkness, flecks of light, Pac5 and Biggie6 are winking at me from the wall

McDonald's, smokes and the end of another book chapter

Don't believe in what's promised to assholes

Because life is short, full of miseries, ends with death

And I realized that everything is nothing in particular

Everything is smoke, I got married, settled down, resigned, took off

Is hell waiting for me on a graveyard?

Drop it like dices

I was an agnostic7, but out of anger became something of a gnostic8(what?)

I created symbiosis9 with this swamp

Like a young naturalist with a raccoon, like a senate with a synod10, like a cathode with an anode11

I know that I lack self-organization

Since I can only complain and snap at others

There are dust and insects everywhere

If I studied men, I would be a parasitologist

[Hook]

I got in on the move

And even if I'm gonna perish here -

There's a cross on my hunch

Flight is taboo

Reciting words

Not knowing to whom, [I'm a] Vagabund

Until I take a vacant place in a tomb

I got in on the move

And even if I'm gonna perish here -

There's a cross on my hunch

Flight is taboo

Reciting words

Not knowing to whom, [I'm a] Vagabund

Until I take a vacant place in a tomb

[Bridge]

I didn't do shit

I just lived and children will draw a chalk outline on a pavement

Someone else will stroll around Sadovaya Street12 with a gang

The Danse Macabre13, I'll ask the Bony One to dance the pasodoble14 with me

I'm told that I started writing like Smoky Mo15

Like there're too many allusions, you're more tedious than Pokémon,

Pinocchio in a silent movie or beatnik prose.

Fuck knows, beats mess up my thoughts like Prozac16

[Hook]

I got in on the move

And even if I'm gonna perish here -

There's a cross on my hunch

Flight is taboo

Reciting words

Not knowing to whom, [I'm a] Vagabund

Until I take a vacant place in a tomb

I got in on the move

And even if I'm gonna perish here -

There's a cross on my hunch

Flight is taboo

Reciting words

Not knowing to whom, [I'm a] Vagabund

Until I take a vacant place in a tomb

[Outro]

I got in on the move...

I'll be on an express train...

Yes, I'm in hell since childhood, stress, I'm drowning

Taram... Everest, Kathmandu...

Under every sky, I'm a Vagabund...

Hm... I'm sick of brides like a wedding host... An Achilles' heel...

Places on board...

No, it doesn't make any sense, fuck it.17

1. Literally "on the nose", which is a Russian idiom meaning "very soon". It's usually used for different events including New Year's Eve.2. Canning Town is an area of east London where Oxxximiron used to live.3. Nicki Minaj is a Trinidadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, model, and actress with a notorious caboose.4. Vagabund (German) - is a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. It is also the name of the independent label founded by Oxxxymiron, Schokk and Ivan Karoy.5. Tupac Amaru Shakur also known by his stage names Tupac, 2Pac, and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor.6. The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper. He is considered by many as one of the best rappers of all time.7. Agnostic is a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God.8. A gnostic believes that the material world is created by an emanation of the highest God, trapping the divine spark within the human body and this divine spark can be liberated by knowledge.9. Symbiosis is any interdependent or mutually beneficial relationship between two persons, groups, etc.10. A synod is a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration, or application.11. An anode is an electrode through which the conventional current enters into a polarized electrical device. This contrasts with a cathode, an electrode through which conventional current leaves an electrical device.12. Sadovaya Street or Garden Street is a major thoroughfare in Saint Petersburg, Russia, passing through the historic city center.13. The Danse Macabre (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death is a medieval allegorical concept of the all-conquering and equalizing power of death, expressed in the drama, poetry, music, and visual arts of western Europe mainly in the late Middle Ages.14. Pasodoble (Spanish: double step) is a Spanish dance that emulates the movements of a bullfight.15. Smoky Mo is a quite famous Russian rapper.16. Prozac is an antidepressant with many side effects.17. Oxxxymiron is making fun of the rappers who pay too much attention to rhymes and end up writing total nonsense.