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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
Now to get Krashkart hooked on Russian music....
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A man after my own heart! This also happens to be perhaps my favourite song of all time. Means a lot to me, it really does
Translation for that one...
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DDT - Rain
Rain,
As a ringing shroud, the sky was filled with May rain
Thunder,
Rumbled through the roofs, the thunder scared away all the cats
I opened the window,
And the playful wind scattered everything on my table -
Stupid poetry
Which I wrote in this stifling and gloomy emptiness...
The thunder of May rumbled,
And joy with a stormy, intoxicating wave
Rolled over me -
Hey get up now, and go jumping after me
Come out to the yard,
And run through the puddles, until morning if you will
Look how they run -
The funny and sacred children
Droplets on my face -
Is this simply rain, or maybe I am crying
The rain cleansed everything,
And my soul, sogging, suddenly poured out
Flowed as a stream,
Far from here, to sunny unmowed fields
Turning into steam,
Flew with the wind towards undiscovered worlds
And I imagined
That the city flooded with happy people
Everyone came out in the rain,
Sang something together, and danced - to hell with all!
Forgetting about shame,
And the risk of later falling ill with complications
People under rain,
Like fireworks greeted thunder, the first thunder of spring...
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Written, oddly enough, by a non-state-approved (i.e. underground) band at one of the high (i.e. low) points of the cold war and Soviet domestic stagnation and political repression, in the early 1980s. That is some unrepressable hope for you!