Текст песни Михаил Гулько - Я не знаю зачем и кому это нужно

I don't know why and who needs it?
Who sent them to their death with a hand that did not tremble?
Only so merciless, so evil and unnecessary
They lowered them into eternal rest ...

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

Throwed them with Christmas trees, kneaded them with mud
And they went home, to interpret on the sly,
That it's time to put an end to the disgrace
That already soon, they say, we will start starving.

But no one thought of just kneeling
And tell these boys that in a mediocre country
Even bright deeds are only steps
Into the endless abysses for the long-awaited spring.

I don't know why and who needs it?
Who sent them to their death with a hand that did not tremble?
Only so merciless, so evil and unnecessary
They lowered them into eternal rest ...

Alexander Vertinsky
1917 g.