Текст песни Михаил Гулько - На смерть кадетов

romance Alexander Vertinsky

(About the cadets killed in 1917 in the village of Borschagovka, about the young men sent to certain death against a dangerous gang)

I don't know why and who needs it
Who sent them to their death with an unwavering hand
Only so useless, so evil and unnecessary
They lowered them into Eternal Peace.

Indifferent spectators silently wrapped themselves in fur coats
And some woman with a distorted face
Kissed the dead man on blue lips
And threw a wedding ring at the priest

They threw them with Christmas trees, they threw mud at them
And they went to their homes on the quiet to interpret
It's time to put an end to the disgrace
That soon we will all start starving

And no one thought of just kneeling
And tell these boys that in a mediocre country
Even bright feats are only steps
Into the endless abysses to the inaccessible Spring

I don't know why and who needs it
Who sent them to their death with an unwavering hand
Only so useless, so evil and unnecessary
They lowered them into Eternal Peace.