Lyric discussion by lemonjuice 

Thanks for adding the russian sentences! :D They're really hard to find.

I have areally stong idea that this song is about a soldier. He's saying that he is fighting only to live because he knows he is no longer fighting for himself. He is fighting for those who own him. "You can't break that which isn't yours"

The second section, "be afraid of the lame..." I believe is about the different things that could kill him. Disease, Old age, the cold. Its very second world war, the russian sort of reiterates that.

February. To get some ink and to cry To write about February and to sob violently( to weep stormily) While crashing slush Like black spring burns To get paletka( horse cab) for six grivnas (unit of currency and weight in medieval Russia) Through blagovest(ringing of church bells) through call of wheels To travel there, where heavy shower Which is even more noisy than ink and tears Where like pears that are charred From trees thousands of rooks Will break away into the puddles and will bring down dry sadness at the bottom of eyes Beneath it thawed patches are blackening And the wind is dug up with screams And the more...

well actually there's no rhyme but i was trying to transmit the sense as I'm russian and it's easier for me that's the whole poem))) I've used the infinitive forms where the author uses them sometimes it's really difficult as some word which are adverbs can be translated only as a set expression in that case the idea of the author is lost((( but still i did my best)

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