Shadow

Ты живёшь- чтоб играть
Я играю-чтоб жить.
Я покорный слуга,
В этой рассе существ.
Не страшна мне не смерть,
Ни покой вечных снов....
Я живу в тени ,угасающих звёзд....

Для редактора,
озабоченного передовицей,
он никто, какой-то Джон Мильтон,
затерявшийся на литературной обочине.

Актриса глицериновую слезу
из-за него не проливала ни разу.

О нем хранит молчание
радио и телевещание.

Нет ни досье, ни файлов секретных.
Нет псевдонимов народу известных.

Никому не интересно
узнать его настоящее имя.

Жив ли он, мертв ли он,
не проверяет никто.

Возможно в чулане
детективы найдут его труп
с разбитым лицом,
с открытыми глазами...

Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!
Clouds of the west – sun there half of hour high –
I see you also face to face.

Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross , returning home,, are more curious to me than you suppose,
And you that shell cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, that you might suppose.

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The impalpable sustenance of me from...

quick buttrfly's shadow
i'm looking up... into sky...
now

overheated my shadow melts

перегревшись моя тень тает

Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh I believe in yesterday
Suddenly I'm not half a man I used to be
There's a shadow handing over me
Oh yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday
Yesterday love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh I believe in yesterday

Night is a long day shadow
Light the stars on a sky meadow.

Day is a light of life,
If it’s sunny – we are bright.

Day show us the way,
The games we make and play.

Night tell us the meaning,
Fresh our mind and open filings.

All in life have double side -
Left and right,
Black and white,
Dark and light…
Day and night.

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand
"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"
It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud
On the wings of the night
As...

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be,
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go I don’t know she woldn’t say.
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Mm mm mm mm mm.



Вчерашний день

Вчера...

Said good bye when I leff to your answering machine.
Then you jumped in a plane
girl
you know what I mean.
Pick up the phone
oh yeah - pick up the phone
oh please

I need your voice again
hearing your voice again.
Waiting so many years
feeling closer to you -
Not a sign not a trace
baby
what can I do?
Pick up the phone
oh yeah - pick up the phone
oh please
. . .
Pick up the phone
let me know - I don't want to lose you
girl.
Don't hang up
get in touch
fill the shadow in my...