t h i s   m u s t   b e   t h e   p l a c e   i   w a i t e d
y e a r s   t o   l e a v e

( T e n n a n t / L o w e)

When I realised what they were singing about... I almost cried! They, representatives of the bourgeois society, as we would have said years ago, singing of Russia... its ways... and more importantly -- its people. Why, how come they care for us?? But they do... or seem to... Now, you can't but fall in love with them, even just for that, can you? *smile* Read through this song carefully please... it shows unique understanding of common Russian people... understanding from the inside, I should say. Amazing, truly amazing! See also "My October Symphony"

(Everybody E-E-Everybody Everybody E-E-Everybody Everybody E-E-Everybody Everybody jump to attention...) Each morning after Sunblest Feel the benefit, mental arithmetic I waited by the staffroom In time for benediction      Living a law just short of delusion      When we fall in love there's confusion      This must be the place I waited years to leave To our voices nobody's listening We shiver in the rain by the touchline Then a coach ride to the station "My lord, the carriage awaiteth!"      Living a law just short of delusion      When we fall in love there's confusion      This must be the place I waited years to leave      This must be the place I waited years to leave      And how      How long? I'm listening to the words I thought I'd never hear again A litany of saints and other ordinary men Kneeling on the parquet Whatever has gone wrong? The fear and feeling hopelessness I don't want to belong I dreamt I was back in uniform And a candidate for examination History, someone had blundered And a voice rapped "knuckle under!"      Living a law just short of delusion      When we fall in love there's confusion      This must be the place I waited years to leave      This must be the place I waited years to leave      And how      And how      How long? (Trebuet nash narod odnogo)      [Our people demand only...]

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