How Young We Used to Be (Как Молоды Мы Были)

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

 

Turn around, unidentified stranger!

I’m familiar with your kindling eyes.

Are you me, only younger?

For ourselves, we don’t always recognize.

 

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And nothing in life passes by without sign.

And our escaped youth is forever alive.

How young we used to be,

How young we used to be.

How earnestly we believed

In love and in ourselves.

 

We were met back then without mocking

By all of the world’s corners and streets

We forgave all our friends for their errors

But we could not forgive their deceit

 

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As we played our first match through and through

There is one thing we managed to grasp:

So that others don’t dare to lose you,

You must try not to lose yourself.

 

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In the sky, the last traces of lightning,

And the thunder has silenced in our hearts.

Don’t forget all the faces you’ve cherished

Or the eyes with which you cannot part.

 

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