I got my doctored on your lips
in a sordid pension in Leningrad
without passport and outside the law
but drunk as a disinherited king
Fifty rubles was a potosí
and you undress a mannequin of scarlet and gold
they gave us keys to the bridal suite
What was a hospital room? no toilet
We were left for a vodka with lemon
when the panging agonized, what anxiety,
I started unbuttoning your raincoat
It was not easy in the Soviet Union
go for condoms to reception
a light years from the routine
he nested a swallow on my balcony
I do not know what happened to us or how it was,
that we crossed that crazy night
we babble all of a hundred
and we beg to break your mouth
we killed ourselves with the will to live
No sleep was sweeter than dreaming
and age with dignity
blasphemy
You with a beret, me with a beard, live Che,
newly converted to the faith of the new man
The Berlin Wall had not fallen
or burst the Sarajevo powder magazine
because the revolution had an Achilles heel to the bearer
And floating among the ruins
widowed a swallow on my balcony
Yesterday you went out, brunette, for a coffee
Almost half a century since I saw you
You were blonde, if I remember correctly
I said, and lying, you're prettier still
You accepted me a beer without alcohol
The sun had died on the rooftops
Funerals, and with nothing to say
I saw in your pupils a badly drawn indigo
I do not know why I keep writing this song
but my heart bleeds
when I dig it
I knew you married a judge
And Leningrad is again Saint Petersburg
We do not even comment if we are left
give me your address
and back to the office
a swallow crashed on my balcony
Because the revolution had an Achilles heel to the bearer
and floating among the ruins
widowed a swallow on my balcony
Only among all we can make this a better place :)