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tonight i cry for russia
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and tonight i cry for the russia
of bolshoi and tarkovsky
motherland of chekhov and tolstoy
i cry for the russian soldiers
who defeated hitler and napoleon
who now betray the motherland
bringing on their own destruction
tonight i cry for the dancers,
the actors, the musicians,
choreograhers and composers.,
the people who have endured
i do not cry for vladimir
who would impale all europe
i cry for the russians
the russians who will stand up
against vladimir the killer
against vladimir the pestilence
against vladimir the famine
who visits death on his own people
and those of other lands
tonight i cry for Shostikovitch
Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov.
Pasternak and Pushkin
Barishnakov and Nijinski
nakarova and pavlova
i cry for uncle vanya and anna karinina
and every lovelorn lover
for prince bolkovsky and his daughter
koncholovsky and his brother
today i pray for those afraid
to act in rage and sorrow
it is every russian's duty
to destroy this man of sin
and make sure the bitch that bore him
never comes into heat again
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a stray dog in the doorway
i climb the broken stairs
calling her name in the darkness
but nobody is left in there
sailors in the street below
a broken window pane
a siren that is silent now
a broken water main
many nights at this address
i combed her flame-red hair
though i cannot find her now
i see red shadows everywhere
a bomb makes no distinction
between the city and the shore
tonight ill go back to my ship
and see my love no more
my love was false, my love was true
ill never see her no more
its off to another battlefield
in the same old stinking war.
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