Таможенный Блюз [Tamozhennyj blyuz] [English translation]

I was born at the customs,

When I was dropped on the floor.

My first dad was a smuggler,

The other dad’s Interpol;

Third dad of mine was Dzerzhinsky,1

Cocaine was the fourth to atone;

Since all of them picked Mausoleum to rest,

I am totally on my own.

I have got just two phases, mother,

When drinking, I’m easy to please.

When I’m sober, I’m timid and shy, mother;

As is: I'm but War and Peace.

I am stoned all day long,

It seems like twelve years in a row.

Do not breathe when I enter the room:

I’m the essence of toxic drug blow.

I’ve got heart of a gambler,

My blood is diethylamide;2

There’s no need to look straight at me,

Or your species will never survive genocide.

I have got just two phases, mother,

When drinking, I’m easy to please.

When I’m sober, I’m timid and shy, mother;

As is: I'm but War and Peace.

The South has got crazy cactus,

The North has got tundra and pike.

Well, here and there live shamans, mother,

I’m one of them too, but unlike:

I stay on the astral plane level,

I drink, when I venture down;

There are many ethereal matters, mother,

But I come to reduce them to one.

I have got just two phases, mother,

Russian radio’s my birthplace on lease.

When I’m sober, I’m timid and shy, mother;

As is: I'm but War and Peace.

1. F. Dzerzhinsky: the first chief of the Soviet secret police (CheKa)2. LSD

• Artist:Akvarium
• Album:Легенды русского рока