Текст песни Алексей Кудрявцев - Темнота

Outside the window - darkness, blackness, blacker than a rook,
and no face is visible, and your last cry is not heard.
Only the lights of the lanterns flicker, and the wheels knock -
it is not a train at all, but life comes to a standstill.

Among a thousand thousand other parallel roads,
it's strange, but only mine was bent into an arc.
I met my death and put a pie on the tablecloth
and she got scared, turned, and another died.

A bird of happiness, a fearful animal, furrowing the sky,
suddenly breaks off at the peak, and you can't keep up with her.
Actors die on stage, and friends at home,
this is life, old times are the most terrible shadow theater.

But when the evil woman sits sideways under the rib,
you pour her a glass - let it get drunk, bony creature!
Who had a little time, but wasted warmth and goodness,
the half-asleep bell ringer will give lazy honor.
The last honor will be given by the half-asleep bell ringer.

(May 1991)