To Doormen (Вахтерам)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEvQUgqYBbA

 

What do I say now to yoU? The string’s torn in two.

Should I start living alone? Sleeping at home?

If, by a glance of the eye, we can’t be assessed,

Why are we pushing the brake and not the gas?

 

Eternal questions: for what? And why?

I see that you’re not yourself, and I’ve lost in my mind.

And all those nights in Crimea were for whom?

If I ever see Him, I’ll pass on from you,

 

The squeaking tone of your talk- an electroshock.

That I am drunk without wine is your crime.

And now the country will know, until it’s dark,

They’re going to her of it all on the radio lines.

 

REFRAIN:

Remember? White wallpaper, black silverware

In a cramped room, a couple.

Who are we? From where? From where?

Closing up the curtains,

Getting cold: Coffee, pastries,

Now explain to me, all you doormen,

Why over her I’m crazy!

 

So let us sit here alone until the dawn,

Please do not leave- but, hold on. I have to go.

And if there’s only one way up ahead,

Then why is it that between us it’s both hot and cold?

 

I’m tired of putting things in their place,

And turning back on my track, but once again,

You touch me and all of my metal has melted

You are the fifth element, can’t give, can’t get.

 

This game has come to its end, finally,

But you are staying silent, and I’m saying,

“Just fifteen minutes are left until morning,

Please do not leave right now, I’ll call a taxi.”

 

Let’s try to sew it all up, and not disturb,

Erasing each other’s numbers off our phones,

But I can’t leave without asking, have no strength,

So let us try to rebuild it all over again.