Текст песни Иван Вдовин - Я старомоден

poem by Grigor Pozhenyan

I'm old fashioned like jackboots
on the deck of a missile carrier,
like a barque that won't return
from filibustering to a new fort.
Like that rejected law
that does not have the same strength,
and like a hermit that goes numb
at the newly minted icons.
... I want lace again,
and the tablecloths and the sleighs are white.
So that beyond the seas, beyond the forests
lived that wisdom that was right.
I want lilacs to bloom again
leaning against the fences.
I want to sail for booms
and in the sea - all and sundry.
I want no earthly gods.
And, despising half measures,
for an insult - to a barrier,
count fourteen steps.
I want the crowd to freeze
before Birger and before Van Gogh,
so that over the lassos of the Mongols
the wild horse tarpan laughed.
So that the horses are returned to us,
so that our children do not get sick
so that their collars turn white
and everything was like people.
So that you live, so that you float,
so that the military buzzer does not creak,
so that I die without healing,
having finished good deeds.