Текст песни Владимир Капгер - Высокопетровский монастырь

When the sloping backs cool down
Asphalt Reptiles - Serpentine Streets,
When, swaying in the showcase air,
My double floats, unpleasantly hunched over,
When the crazy trolleybus creeps in
Flying Dutchman to the invisible stars, -
Draws me slowly to the black sky
Cobblestone skin of the Kuznetsk bridge ...

Moscow stiffens with a cold dog
Having done nonsense for a day for centuries, -
Night abode of obsessive fears
It looks like a midnight hassle
That crawls through the dead apartments
Where reality, like insomnia, is unbearable,
Just squeamish over the black, forgotten world
The Colossus of Lubyansky is an indestructible light ...

Overwhelmed by the wet October wind
I hear the blood crawl into the puddle
How the second century beats in horror
In the underground dungeon, Princess Neglinka.
And I scatter myself into hundreds of phantoms,
Wandering in the squirrels of the Chaldean capital,
And all plunged into motionless hassle
And everything dissolves in the blinded eye sockets ...

I know I be hopelessly raving
In the chilling desert that declared me;
That mess filled with oppressive ringing
I will never, never leave.
Is it really the same everywhere and well
Dung abysses are covering the whole world ?!
Hanging choking canopy in the sky
Hovering over me fetid October ...

So copper flashes in the Kremlin sky
The usual dawn glow is extinguished.
So pale tusks in Vysokopetrovsky
Cold peace is the name of my soul.
So a night scorched by mercury agony
The last stupid hope fools.
Like a suicide bomber running from a close chase
I believe Pipe Square will save me ...

1990