Laughing Room

This is my translation of the song "Laughing Room". The music by Teodor Efimov, lyrics by David Usmanov, written in 1987.

		Have you ever been in a laughing room? Have you ever been in a laughing room? That's where the fun, That's where the fun, Have you ever been in a laughing room? Chorus: There little seems big, There plump seems thin, There the heads of all - as at giants, And hands - as at the best musicians. There are curved mirrors as saucers, And everyone laughs, And everyone laughs, And everyone laughs. Have you ever talked with yourself there? Have you ever talked with yourself there? Laughing with tears, Laughing with tears, Have you ever talked with yourself there? Chorus. What if take a glimpse into yourself as in laughing room? What if take a glimpse into yourself as in laughing room? What the obstacle, What the obstacle, If each of us - like a laughing room. Chorus.

Ambitions

a tube of red paint

		Squeezed from a tube of paint the red contours bodies, horizontal silhouettes, over and over again, moaning as if spilled, filling the space, stratifying layer by layer, lying down with a sigh of frustration, uttering the last farewell, complaining about the fluidity of life... Soon appearing crow shies from the abundance of color and brightness.

stuffed ginger bread man

		Energy bubbles whispering powerfully in my head, new components are boiling, added to my composition. Had once absorbed the direction, advice and just the 'right moves', this time I accept only myself, what I am made of, not what I know or heard. My new, renewed layers're stacked roughly inside, filling me new, no place for extra someone's thought and stuff. Stuffed toy might be given whatever shape you want: 'Head of the class' or 'Today ice cream', but I am not any of them. 

the fence

lumber party

my shadow

the night of rain

		And almost as in the dream in only one night so many eyes have opened, so many witnesses're appeared the night of rain

this little world

		Don't miss to see this little world, where the groundwater's running takes beginning rain mix, adding mini trees for compilation