Крокодиловы слёзы [Krokodilovy slyozy] [English translation]

[Verse 1]

Our fortune is posing in front of the mirror

Trying out a chastity time belt packed with explosives

Do you remember how no one believed that we're together and married

But our cards got mixed up by a lousy prestidigitator1

You know, I had a dream about us sleeping together again

A sleeping bag, a sleeping car or a "sleeper" neighbourhood2

Throwing underwear around the bedroom and wrapping ourselves in bed linens

I've said so much about a bedroom that this is a king-size album

Miron is not a pseudonym

There's a night light above my head again - a neon circle - this is my pseudohalo

You are my serotonin and not ambrosia with nectar

I had an iron will when I said "It's over", but you're metal corrosion

I'm sitting here and watching the dimming sky outside the window

Some juvies on bikes with murses are hustling

Whether I'm guilty or not -

It doesn't matter, we're the orphans with the Internet connection in a foster home

[Hook]

I know, those are crocodile tears

I know, everything is irreversible, but still

I know, there's no alternative, and still

Tell me, why do crocodiles have tears?

I know, those are crocodile tears

I know, everything is irreversible, but still

I know, there's no alternative, and still

Tell me, why do crocodiles have tears?

[Verse 2]

I used to be a squatter, travelled by hitchhiking

Turned off the roads and entered pathways

And when my tracks were played around the Neva river

I resigned from every job I had not been kicked out of

And maybe this is not comme il faut or mauvais ton

And someone saved money to buy a house and I did to buy a microphone

They'll say "What a shitty flow", but it's a lump in my throat

A Crowley3, a cat postcard and the Necronomicon4 are on my bookshelf

Some release albums quickly, I suffered for mine

I tore it out, summoned it and squeezed it out, ripped it out, shat it and puked it

I devoured it, snorted it, smoked it - don't tell me that we're no longer on first-name terms:

I didn't give a shit, but I'm not full of it

There's a grocery store across the street, it's mostly calm down here

Even though an island bonebreaker5 carries around a "telescope"6 like an astronomer...

And when others lifted weights, I fled to the studio

Track pants, a mohawk and a hoody

[Hook]

I know, those are crocodile tears

I know, everything is irreversible, but still

I know, there's no alternative, and still

Tell me, why do crocodiles have tears?

I know, those are crocodile tears

I know, everything is irreversible, but still

I know, there's no alternative, and still

Tell me, why do crocodiles have tears?

1. Prestidigitator is a fancy word for "magician" 2. (calque) A commuter district whose residents normally work elsewhere but in which they live, eat and sleep.3. Aleister Crowley - an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer 4. The Necronomicon is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in the stories by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers 5. A British hooligan6. An expandable baton. Also called a "telescopic baton"

• Artist:Oxxxymiron
• Album:Вечный жид (2011)