Grazhdanskaya Oborona "Pro durachka (Про дурачка)" Слова пісні

Of a Fool

A fool is wanderingThrough the woodsLooking is the foolFor an even greater foo[*]

Death is walking down the street[**]With pancakes on her dish[The one] who gets one is to have his lot come trueShe pats his shoulderKisses him hardHis kopeks fall and roll from his bosom right away

A fool is wanderingThrough the woodsLooking is the foolFor an even greater fool

Cog-wheels started spinning inside my headMy wet head in the armor-piercing rainQuicksilver started boiling, the fist was raisedBut putting a cross on one's chest means putting coins onto his eyes[***]

A fool is wanderingThrough the woodsLooking is the foolFor an even greater fool

My dead mama came to me yesterdayShook her fists at me, called me a foolAn early morning gnat landed into my fireAnd chocked on the blood from my temple

A fool is wanderingThrough the worldLooking is the foolFor an even greater fool

I've bought a bunch of balloons todayI'll fly with them over the wonderful landI'll swallow poplar fluff, dive into the groundAnd answer any questions: "Always alive!"[****]

A fool is wanderingThrough the skiesLooking is the foolFor an even greater fool

The sun was shining all day and all night longThere are no atheists in foxholesThe blind one will come first, the worthless one will winYou couldn't even dream of that

A fool is wanderingThrough the woodsLooking is the foolFor an even greater fool

[*]The refrain was inspired by an old Slavic death spell: "A deadman is wandering through the woods, looking for someone more dead than him".[**] In Russian, the word "death" is of feminine gender.[***]A reference to the old custom of placing coins on the eyes of the dead.[****]This may be a paraphrase of the well-known quote from a poem by Soviet poet Lev Oshanin: "Lenin is always with you/Lenin is always alive".