Текст песни Константин Тарновский - Я обнял эти плечи и взглянул...

(On poems by Joseph Brodsky)

I hugged the shoulders and looked
that turned out for a spin
and saw that the nominated chair
He mingled with the illumination of the wall.
It was increased the intensity of the light bulb,
disadvantageous for furniture istёrtoy,
and because the sofa in the corner sparkled
brown skin, like yellow.
The table was empty. Poblёskival parquet.
It was getting dark stove. In the dusty frame
frozen landscape. And only one buffet
It seemed to me then animate.

But moth circled the room,
and he is my eyes shifted to real estate.
And if a ghost here once lived,
then he left the house. I left.

1962