Текст песни Злые куклы - Саркофаг

SARCOPHAGUS

A thousand days is like one day
A thousand years - and the calendar is ready.
A thousand arrows, but two would be enough.
They didn't shoot at the sun, they shot at the lantern.

I walked over the rubble of clay statues
Where empires crumbled to dust.
Lifting idols by their fragile ears
And they crumbled in my hands.

The towers of Babylon scratch the sky
The heels of the capricious gods tickle.
God candidates climb rooftops
And they break out of there at my feet.

And I pull off rich clothes from bodies
And in the waters of the Tiger I wash the blood off them,
Singing songs that my genius gives birth to
And the first of the poets to rhyme blood-love.

Where did you take us, Commander?
How do I find my way back?
The Commander answers us: "What nonsense!
I didn't understand a word, and I'm glad of that.
When Venus holds out her foam hands
We will understand that life is a sarcophagus,
Where battle scenes adorn the walls
And the wind is wandering under the lid - like that! "

I returned to the Apennines and met two brothers
Who introduced themselves to me as Romulus and Remus.
I thought, looking into their wolf eyes, -
The city walls will rise soon.

Why does it all repeat itself again -
People are again crowding in Jerusalem and Mecca,
Again the stake makes its way through the body
And again weeping on the rivers of Babylon.

Where did you take us, Commander?
How do I find my way back?
The Commander answers us: "What nonsense!
I didn't understand a word, and I'm glad of that.
When Venus holds out her foam hands
We will understand that life is a sarcophagus,
Where battle scenes adorn the walls
And the wind is wandering under the lid - like that! "