In a Nutshell

 
Don’t miss it – It is a beautiful video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy-rkOpXspA&feature=related
 
 
 
Текст (слова) песни «Танго разбитых сердец»
 
 
Автор текста (слов):
Арсенев К. 
Композитор (музыка):
Лепс Г. Кобылянский Е 
 
 
 
Мы всю ночь танцевали,
А с утра вы сказали:
Этот мир – мир печали.
Кто мы здесь?
Давайте с вами
Пойдем «ва-банк»,
Давайте завтра
Ограбим банк.
Мы не такие,
Как все вокруг,
Мой таинственный друг.
Достаньте длинный
Свой пистолет.
Никто на свете
Не скажет: нет.
Пусть от любви
Будет ночь пылать.
Я [...]

Posted on January 20th, 2010 under Songs in Russian Language. Tags: dance, Songs, tango. Comments: None

 
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4
 
 

 
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There’ll be no one in the house
Save for twilight. All alone,
Winter’s day seen in the space that’s
Made by curtains left undrawn.
 
 
Only flash-past of the wet white
Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone.
Only roofs and snows, and save for
Roofs and snow – no one at home.
 
 
Once more, frost [...]

Posted on January 19th, 2010 under English, Literature, Russian, Songs in Russian Language. Tags: fate, irony, melancholy, Pasternak, poem, poetry, Songs, twilight, winter. Comments: None

Seasons change, so do times.  This song is from my childhood.  There are three different clips, the first one is from the time when my parents were young (around 70s)
1. “Zima” (Winter) Hil’ Edward “Зима” Эдуард Хиль
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-DP_ZqH7k&feature=related
2.  Vitas is probably 20 years younger than me (yet another generation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b63hZBP_6h0&feature=related
3. Also Vitas and a Friend, but the [...]

Posted on January 18th, 2010 under Songs in Russian Language. Tags: song, winter. Comments: None

 
What do you know?  I always stumble on something and this song “I will remain the Light for you” seems to continue the theme of Light from the post “I never once refused not to help you”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKGR8V-fJRw&feature=related

Posted on January 14th, 2010 under Dreams, Songs in Russian Language. Tags: light, Songs. Comments: 1