I’d like to talk to you,
But the TV is too loud—
It’s pretending to be your head,
Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
My country has risen from its knees
In all its negative growth.
I negatively agree with everything—
Here’s my answer to your non-question:
Where have you been for eight years,
Fucking inhuman beings?!
I want to watch the ballet—
Let the swans dance!
Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his “Lake.”
Get the nightingales off the screen—
Let the swans dance!
When it’s all over, you’ll be silent
And pretend you had nothing to do with it.
Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum:
You’re clearly slightly depressed about something.
I’d like to talk to you,
But the TV is too loud—
It’s pretending to be your head,
Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
Where have you been for eight years,
Fucking monsters?!
I want to watch a ballet—
Let the swans dance!
Let Grandpa tremble for his “Lake.”
Get off the screen, Solovyov—
Let the swans dance!
Historically, the USSR would broadcast a recording of the ballet Swan Lake (on loop I think?) when their leader died, and it was also broadcast during the failed coup in 1991. The lyrics in the song that the teenager played, assuming the above translation is correct, are a not-so-subtle call for a certain kind of event…
I believe this is the song she was playing
Terrible Google translate of the lyrics:
A lot of references to the fall of the USSR
I fucking love “let the swans dance”
What does it mean?
Historically, the USSR would broadcast a recording of the ballet Swan Lake (on loop I think?) when their leader died, and it was also broadcast during the failed coup in 1991. The lyrics in the song that the teenager played, assuming the above translation is correct, are a not-so-subtle call for a certain kind of event…