Текст песни Михаил Щербаков - Когда я был помоложе, я тоже имел коня...

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                        They are bad people
                        and bad horses go .
                                           
                          Xenophon , " Cyropaedia "

When I was younger , I also had a horse,
enemies and profiteers in the neighboring ladies drove flowers .
And ladies , of course, also stare at me -
a hair's breadth, as now you stare at these .
                                         Dear God! God! ..

Now other times , and I myself am getting on in years .
I care about the horses - as, indeed , and every animal.
And you're young and now . And these , on horseback ,
certainly you are cute , that kept a little frisky .

And yet it 's obvious : you want to be successful ,
you are all still in full color of its twenty-eight .
I was even a little pleased that you are on everyone's lips .
But I hate these - with flowers and horses.
                                         Dear God! God! ..

Do not argue, sometimes appropriate and jealousy, and restlessness :
Suffering gives insight in insight - grace.
But I was almost at the abyss , to the edge submit your fingertips!
My short-lived moment, and once I suffer.

Therefore, let the answer for everything and I am left alone ,
but hatred and passion in itself I do not muted
and if the next day they again priskachut us -
I will tear them to pieces. And horses strangled.
                                         Dear God! God! ..

1989