Hi, everyone. I've made a translation of a cult Soviet punk song called "all goes on as planned" by the band Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense). Even now the song is widely known among people of different age groups including today's young people. I thinkt it may be interesting for some of you to get to know it. It's my very first translation so there can be some mistakes. Please, correct me if you find ones.
The band actually was banned and the leader of the band Egor Letov was jailed in the psychic hospital with fake diagnosis. But the thing is that he was not against communism, he just had slightly different point of view than the government. The song reflects the beliefs and doubts of an ordinary man in ussr. It is full of sarcasm and may look like antisoviet, but I think it's ambiguous. I hope the message is not lost because of my translation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ift8T7eVEo All goes on as planned The key from the border has been broken in two parts And our grandfather Lenin has gone so long ago He has decayed to some honey and some mold And "perestroika" is still going on and on (as planned) And all dirt has Turned into naked ice And all goes on as planned My soul is tired, it wants to have a rest And I've promised it "no more playing war games" But on my uniform cap there are hammer, hook and star Oh, how touching it is: HAMMER, HOOK, and STAR The dashing lantern of Waiting is swaying And all goes on as planned And my wife was taken and thrown to the crowd With the national freedom her flash was torn apart With a fist of the world they have broken her chest So (at last), please, bury her in Christ Cause all goes on as planned? Grandfather Lenin was the only good chief And all other ones after him, all they were shit They were all enemies and damned assholes From the sky to my land daemonic snow falls I've read about Korea, it all goes well there too. They have comrade Kim Ir Sen And they have just all the same I am sure, they have All the same And it goes on as planned And the age of communism so fu*king good as shit It will come very soon, we just have to wait a bit Everything will be free, everything will make fun And I think even that we will not have to die I woke up in the night and realized THAT IT'S ALL... IT ALL GOES ON AS PLANED! |
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