Забава [Zabava] [English translation]

Holy God!

Holy And Mighty!

Holy Immortal!

Have mercy on me!

They have left me the only pastime

Put two fingers in my mouth and whistle

I‘ve got a very bad notoriety

To be the brawler and a dirty heart thief

What a funny loss and wastage,

I have seen lots of them to forget.

Not believing in God is ashaming,

And I still don’t believe but regret.

I was granted with gift making verses

where tenderness and scratching thorns

I did try to reveal a white rose

For to marry it with a black frog.

That’s unreal, That could not be possible

Days of innocent dreams flew away.

But if there’s a hell in my soul

You could find angels there as well.

Those golden faraway years

They have burnt in delusion оf life.

I was shameless I brawled I was restless

For I wanted my flame to arise.

So regarding that mess of the cheer

If it’s time to depart into death

I would like in my last minutes here

To make will with appeal to my friends

I ask you for my sins that were heavy

For my doubts, lack of faith and distrust,

Put me under the ikon of sainted.

Dressed in Russian clothes I want to die.

They have left me the only pastime

Put two fingers in my mouth and whistle

I‘ve got a very bad notoriety

To be the brawler and a dirty heart thief

What a funny loss and wastage,

I have seen lots of them to forget.

Not believing in God is ashaming,

And I still don’t believe but regret.

• Artist:Alexander Malinin