Ветерок [Veterok] [English translation]

The fresh little breeze sweeps through with a song

It's ringing in reflective grass

About one place where I used to belong

Where Joy was in love with me once...

Oh, when was it the first time I heard this song

One river's muddy waters could perhaps recall

The time when joy was loving me is gone forever.

It’s gone beyond the point of no return

There wasn’t a dream of mistrust or a lie

In the heart and the soul of that youth

The beauty I saw with my all-loving eyes

Was Faith and a measure of truth

Oh God how long ago was that life of joy

Only muddy river waters could perhaps recall

The time when joy was loving me

Is gone forever, it’s lost for me beyond the point of no return

The further away I am walking away

From dignified victories days

The farther away is that sweet little place

With honest and broad pathways

In my search for a better life I've walked so far

Into a land of strangers where it’s all bizarre

But could this be my joy still running free

Singing in the air crying out for me...?

What else can I do? The Evil is strong

It’s trying much harder than Good

It warms up my soul, that old little song

In ‘San Fran’ and North Hollywood

May be I did not forget beyond recall

My happy old life and the joy and me "standing tall"...

May be just a glance at what I left behind

Will open the Future to my mind

• Artist:Konstantin Nikolsky