Девочка - пай 2 [Devochka - pay 2] [English translation]

In sparkling dress, gold and pearls,

High heels, and a bouquet of roses in your hands.

The buzzing stopped when you walked in the pub in that flaunty manner.

And do you remember how I used to bring you my roses,

How we used to come home on an empty tram,

The midnight town was silent and sleeping.

How it smelled of buds swelling in spring.

I kept you safe from all the troubles.

I thought of you every day in the pen,1

Maybe now my dreams would come true,

I remember how I used to kiss you goodbye on the cheek,

And you would laugh2 and shut the door.

How I hated saying goodbye and leaving.

Oh, we were so young and beautiful.

So I would stay and wait untill I saw

You switching off the lights in your bedroom.

Meanwhile there at the arch, they would already wait for me to beat me up.

I could use the backyards, but I always went through the arch,

It was always a pleasure to punch them in the teeth.

One of them is a cop now - such a jackass,

I bashed him many times under that arch,

He was such a sneaky coward.3

I used to hit his left eye with gusto,

And would restore his shiner4 every night.

Do you remember the last time we went to the pub,

And there, the district police officer was relaxing with other cops?

He had just graduated from a law school.

He was drunk, invited you for a dance.

Bastard,5 he fell in love and went to your mother.

And then your father figured it was luck.

So, I met the cop in the stairwell, then thwack...

And for that I was thrown in jail for eight years.

So, here I am, and you're coming across the hall,

Not smiling, you don't recognize me - it's been a while...

Today's your birthday, you look blooming.

And I'm just a sucker from a jail, sitting here alone over a bottle.

I'm gonna ask the waiter to pass you a letter,

Just one line - "cheer up and don't miss me too much".

You'd rush to look for me among the tables,

In your sparkling dress and pearls... goody two-shoes girl.

1. Informal: A penitentiary; a prison.2. There is a mistake in the original lyrics, he is singing "laugh", not "run away".3. Lit.: He would always grab any chance to play a dirty trick4. black eye, bruise5. lit.: louse colored

• Artist:Mikhail Krug