Текст песни
I have never been so weary before
In this gray freezing slush and rain
I dreamed of Ryazan's skies once more
And my wayward life of pain
Many women have given me their love
And I've loved more than just a few
Is that why some dark force above
Has drawn me to the bottle's brew?
Endless nights of drunken haze
And in revelry, familiar sorrow!
Is that why worms like azure blaze
Gnaw my eyes till empty hollow?
No betrayal pains me anymore
Nor does the ease of conquest thrill
That golden haystack of hair I once adored
Turns ashen gray and still
Turns to ashes, turns to water
When autumn's murk begins to seep
I don't mourn you, years gone farther
Nothing do I wish to keep
I'm tired of tormenting myself in vain
And with a strange smile on my face
I've grown to love in my light frame to contain
A corpse's quiet light and grace
And now it's not so hard to lumber
From one den of sin to the next
As into a straitjacket's slumber
We take nature bound in concrete's nest
And in me, by these same laws applied
The raging fire begins to wane
Yet still I bow with humble pride
To those fields I once loved in rain
To those lands where I grew beneath the maple
Where I frolicked on the yellow grass—
I send greetings to crows and sparrows, ample
And the owl that weeps as night hours pass
I shout to them across spring distances wide
Dear birds, into the blue trembling air
Tell them I'm done with scandal's tide—
Let the wind now begin to beat
The rye till it bends in prayer
