Брошенный богом мир [Broshennyy bogom mir] [English translation]

Gold has turned black, crammed a room

The city is crammed.

The world is one big damned prison.

Hectic.1

The summer is cold, (we) dance in the cold. 2

Who’s on the line?

The wire’s gone dark.

Just silence.

Don’t glue splinters together,

Don’t let the darkness fade away,

Watch as the wolves spawn

from stray dogs. 3

Shove your head into the television,

Wear holes into your couch. 4

You are already posthumously forced to do so. 5

In a world abandoned, abandoned, abandoned by God. 6

Bolts become trinkets, wolves become friends, 7

Who were you, and who were you not?

Go figure it out.

Either become a sheep,

Hook up with a candle,

God will be with you today like a fig leaf,

Clean-type.

There is no need for worry,

Time does not go backwards,

Exactly at midnight, scores upon scores will leave, 8

But it isn’t about this,

I want so much, just to live

Just to throw a ray of light into this

world abandoned, abandoned, abandoned by God.

1. Hectic makes sense, to me it sounds like he is saying it is a hectic mess2. I’m assuming he means we. This line makes no sense in English. 3. I heard Moscow has a stray dog problem….and I kinda want to live in Moscow where I commute on a train with a wolf. That be cool 4. There are a lot of ways you can interpret that.5. This was a weird line to translate, so if I could have a native I’d be happy for this one6. I like how I interpreted it but I’m certain someone will object, it isn’t living if someone doesn’t object to you or your actions. 7. Yet again, this song has a theme of being hard to interpret and translate into English.8. Help on this one too. Jesus this song is tough.

• Artist:Mashina vremeni