Деклассированным элементам [Deklassirovannym elementam] [English translation]

Let us place the most arch dropouts in the front

We must give them at the first grade, may they wish it all

As a first grade of the lifeschool will serve them the pound1

By the eighth they'll join posthumously the Komsomol2

In ten steps from here blinked the traffic light

Yellow flashes for two minutes to the end of rain

In the underpass there will be a left hairpin bend

In the underground walkway all the lights go out

By the lane among the fences through the stiffs of eons

Through the years and wild grasses, through the farthers' feats

Through the shots and through the blow-ups, through the empty space

To contrive to pass a mile in a two-minute pace

By the spinuous prick-line, also by the eyes of chiefs

Out there with the deep freeze - by the drizzles' tears

On the order to hit pests from underground holes

By the great instruction given3 building the world-old

Let us place the most arch dropouts in the front

We must give them at the first grade, may they wish it all

As a first grade of the lifeschool will serve them the pound

By the eighth they'll join posthumously the Komsomol

1. literally - jail2. Komsomol - an acronym for КОМмунистический СОюз МОЛодёжи, also known as ВЛКСМ (Communist Youth Union, All-Union Lenin Communist Youth League). You can sing "rock-n-roll" instead. ;)3. There's a variant "навету", then it should be "insinuation" instead of "instruction given" here.

• Artist:Yanka Dyagileva