Забадай [Zabadaj] [English translation]

Those cruel Zabadye brothers

With very wide smiles (from one ear to another)

Will soon come to our region

To show their strength of spirit;

They will walk on burning coal,

They will give us an example -

How sweet it is to break the law

What a joy to be the starovers*.

I was tied to the soil,

I silently swallowed my tears;

But everything I was carring on me,

Now it burns in the flame of the Rose;

And those who were getting the dividends -

I remember them so smiling -

They thought that it all belongs to them;

It seems to me they were wrong.

I didn't eat anything for 14 years;

I didn't drink for 14 years also;

For 14 years I kept silence,

In order not to disturb you.

Now the berth became too narrow for me

And I have no strength anymore;

I will do it all as I wanted,

To push you through the customs

The Emperor is great, without words

But he is like a DJ without access to ether;

Since I've been knowing you,

I'm lost to the rest of the world.

I have stood up on your shore,

Thanks to this house;

You're the air I breathe

And I wouldn't want that it will be in another way.

I didn't eat anything for 14 years;

I didn't drink for 14 years also;

For 14 years I kept silence,

In order not to disturb you.

Now a berth became too narrow for me

And I have no strength anymore;

I will do it all as I wanted,

To push you through the customs