I Wrote These Lines Instead of Your Portrait
1
And you’re somewhere under
 This starry sky…
 Why do lights go out?
 So that someday
We might talk about it.
 I wrote these lines instead
 Of your portrait —
 I don’t even know
If they turned out well.
 But they are special,
 Because in them
 Is you.
This has happened to me before —
 Thousands of cigarettes,
 Thousands of coffees ago —
 Sunsets, dawns replacing each other,
All for the chance
 To someday meet you.
 Even in a dream.
 That would be enough,
Not too little —
 It’s everything.
 To know these lines
 Will enter the egregore
And one day reach you.
CHORUS
And the dim glow of the night lamp,
 And the warm spring-summer night,
 And I’m afraid to write you,
 Don’t know why.
Believe in yourself and your dream.
 Believe in something bright.
 To be kinder and purer —
 That’s beautiful and eternal.
To be kinder and purer —
 That’s beautiful and eternal.
2
And they will reach you one day,
 These lines,
 Suddenly, irrevocably,
 (In parentheses — or maybe not),
 And someone else will write you
New inspired-inspiring
 Lines.
A star
 Burns high above the rooftop.
 I was born in a beautiful time,
 The time when you were born.
A stately, sweet birch
 In the midst of a concrete city
 On the edge
 Of a great empire.
Homeland, sky, love.
 You’ll forever remain in the depths of my heart.
 Sorry — again.
 I was swept up by euphoria
From seeing your
 Photo online.
 Girl of the metamodern age.
CHORUS
And the dim glow of the night lamp,
 And the warm spring-summer night,
 And I’m afraid to write you,
 Don’t know why.
Believe in yourself and your dream.
 Believe in something bright.
 To be kinder and purer —
 That’s beautiful and eternal.
To be kinder and purer —
 That’s beautiful and eternal.

Lyrics and music by Pavel Ivanov aka Год Таер
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