Novels About Love (Книжки о Любви)

She sat there and she looked at me
I was a novel she had finished
There was a question in her eyes
The answer on her mouth, it froze
Of course, to her, who could I be?
Just a St. Petersburg kid
My eyes, they were telling her “yes”
Her eyes, they were telling me “no”

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Novels about love
They’re so full of lies
With beautiful plots and happy endings
Novels about love
I beg you don’t try to pitch me lavish feasts,
Shiny engagement rings
Across white, white snow
I want to escape
Until my strength runs out, far far away from Moscow
He was just like me, Eugene Onegin
We both hated novels about love
Novels about love

Soon some guy, some stranger out there
Will read her novel through and through
Then, he will lose his interest
And will go loan her to his friend
And what’s ahead, what lies ahead
She cannot know, she’ll never know
So many sorrows and heartbreaks
They will await along her path

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