Balāde par gulbi
Balāde par gulbi (English: Ballad about a Swan) is a song by Latvian Rock band Pērkons, written by Māris Melgalvis (lyrics) and Juris Kulakovs (music). Written while Latvia was still part of USSR, it is noted for its anti-soviet subtext. The opening part of the song deals with a crow with no sense of humor sitting on a fresh grave and forcing her opinion on everyone. Most of the song dwells on the stupidity of killing a swan, but in the end resolves that the swan is so red that one cannot help killing it (consider that in the early 1980s soviet leaders were dying one after another and were usually mourned by broadcasting Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake).
Lyrics
- Kārna vārna
- Uz slapa kapa
- Man savu patiesību ķērc
- Vai tiešām viņa neattapa ka viss tas - tikai joka pēc
- Ak vai cik stulbi
- Ir nosist gulbi
- Bet stulbāk vēl ja vēlāk žēl
- Tad ir tik velnišķīgi stulbi—ik rietā sarkans gulbis kvēl
- Tik stulbi kvēl
- Ka jāsit vēl
Translation:
- A skinny crow
- On a wet grave
- Croaking her truth to me
- Didn't she really realize that it all is just for fun?
- Oh, how stupid
- It is to beat a swan to death
- But even more stupid if you regret it later
- It is so devilishly stupid—in each sunset a red swan glows
- Glows so stupidly
- That one has to beat it again
Balāde par gulbi
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