Текст песни Евгений Лукин - Баллада о невидимом райцентре

Year after year in a quiet lake
Framed by a primordial landscape,
Reflected a small regional center
With a red flag over the regional executive committee.
But one day the water shook
The lake darkened to bad weather -
The wire has passed the news
That there was a struggle against Soviet power!

The faces of the inhabitants have changed.
The hint has been misinterpreted.
A small regional center rebelled
With a red flag over the regional executive committee.
The Democrats were kicked out
They erected barricades in the alleys,
They burned bonfires and torches all night.
Fearing neither God nor the blockade.

Surrendered in a sensitive sacrum -
The mayor understood that he was to be
For a rebellious little regional center
With a red flag over the regional executive committee
And the armor is still solid -
And in the steppes of steaming expanses
The amphibious horde flowed
On spotted armored personnel carriers.

The senior officer is concerned -
Was he lost with the regiment?
- Gentlemen! Where is the regional center here?
With a red flag over the regional executive committee?
Lake and grove, grace,
But nowhere is there a house, even spit!
And in the end I had to report
About the missing village.

... Sometimes only in a quiet lake
Contrary to optical laws
A lost regional center appears
With a red flag over the regional executive committee.
(This story is accompanied by the quiet ringing of the monist
In a pub called "Gypsy"
A former communist told me
President of a commercial bank.)