Wings (Крылья)
Standing with your face to the wall,
You take off your evening dress.
I notice the fresh scars
On your back, smooth as velvet.
I want to be dissolved in sleep.
Or to cry of agony.
Tell me, where are your wings that were so beloved by me?
Where are your wings that were so beloved by me?
Where are your wings that were so beloved by me?
Today, both of us have work
Before, both of us had time
To prove the strong eat the weakest,
To prove that the ashes are white.
And all of us have lost something
In this maddening war.
By the way, where are those wings, the ones that I used to adore?
Where are those wings, the ones that I used to adore?
Where are your wings that, the ones that I used to adore?
I do not ask your number of husbands,
Don’t ask how much money you own.
I see you’re afraid of open windows,
You’re terrified of high floors.
And if tomorrow there is a fire,
The whole building the flames will engulf,
We will die without those wings, the ones that I used to love.
Where are your wings, the ones that I used to love?
Where are those wings, the ones that I used to love?
Dihanie (Breathing)
I stir awake and I’m covered in sweat
The nightmares howl all over my head
I dreamed that our home was submerged in a flood
And you and I, we were the only ones alive.
With kilometers of water over our heads
And all the blue whales flapping out waves with their tails
Oxygen levels could only sustain one
And so I lay in the dark…
REFRAIN:
Listening to our breathing, I’m listening to our breathing
Before, I didn’t realize that for the two of us, there’s only one breath.
One breath.
I lay there trying to forget how to breathe
I long to give you for just one minute still
A bit of that gas that we don’t know how to share
But you’re asleep, you don’t know of
These kilometers of water over our heads
And all these blue whales that flap our waves with their tails
Oxygen levels could only sustain one
And so I lay in the dark…
REFRAIN
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