The last cold ray of sunshine
Slowly disappears
Round the corner of the building
And leaves you alone,
When darkness covers the city
And the streets are silent too,
What will you turn to?
The last cold ray of sunshine
Slowly disappears
Round the corner of the building
And leaves you alone,
When darkness covers the city
And the streets are silent too,
What will you turn to?
And take in your hands
A little ray of light
And turn it into a beam,
That pierces the darkness of the night...
I won't be coming home tonight,
My generation will put it right.
We're not just making promises,
That we know, we'll never keep.
And on the morning after
Do you realise,
See the ruined faces
And the ruined lives,
Inside your head
Do you never have
the thought, a moment of doubt?
Mothers crying in the street,
Children dying at their feet,
Tell me why, tell me why?
People starving everywhere,
There's too much food
But none to spare,
tell me why, tell me why?
После Гоголя, Некрасова и Щедрина совершенно невозможен никакой энтузиазм в России. Мог быть только энтузиазм к разрушению России. Да, если вы станете, захлёбываясь в восторге, цитировать на каждом шагу гнусные типы и прибауточки Щедрина и ругать каждого служащего человека на Руси, в родине, — да и всей ей предрекать провал и проклятие на каждом месте и в каждом часе, то вас тогда назовут «идеалистом-писателем», который пишет «кровью сердца и соком нервов»... Что делать в этом бедламе, как не... скрестив руки — смотреть и ждать.
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.