Dolphin - Soul
This is the end, mama We're standing on our knees Hearts beat, worn out In their final confessions
Bullets tear into heads Weaving their bloody nests Mama, we were being lied to - In the sky, there's nothing but stars
The burden of victory is weak, For the goal we achieved was easy - Because we were always so close To that which we truly desired
And there won't be much use for us - By a thousand we're worth half a nickel But we still could do it, mama - Blow up the sun if we had to...
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We wanted something different Than life after a quiet death The worst grew up deep inside us, On the firmament of a stone heart
We fought and defended, mama We kept our souls safe We survived uprightly, We all became better and better
So we want to live, mama Because that happens just once And it's still too early for me And I'm really not so brave
But this is the end, mama And we're standing on our knees Hearts beat stubbornly In their final confessions
Bullets tear into heads Weaving their bloody nests Mama, we were being lied to - In the sky, there's nothing but stars... ***
Dolphin (aka "Del'fin", aka Andrei Lysikov) is Russia's premiere alternative music artist. Difficult to categorize yet incredibly influential, he started out in the rap group Mal'chishnik in the early 1990s - but over time his music lost the hallmarks of hip-hop entirely. Over the past decade, Dolphin - in collaboration with his guitarist Pavel Dodonov - carved out an increasingly austere, startling, minimalistic music style based on drum machines, samples and loops accompanied by very sparse poetry, frequently on the themes of death. In June 2014, "Soul" became the first new Dolphin song to be premiered by them in 3 years, with a new album due out by fall. (archive)
