Lemonday – I Sniff
A female duo (Zhenya Il and Yulia Nakaryakova) plus a drummer from Saint Petersburg. Лемондэй (or Lemonday) disbanded in 2015. Fortunately, they left behind this gem from 2013. Нюхаю = I smell, or I sniff, I snuff. From the verb нюхать.
Cold, cold, cold
Words that are repeated:
Я нюхаю я нюхаю я очень много нюхаю: I sniff, I sniff, I sniff a lot. Or I snuff, sniff, or smell a lot, in any case, something you do when it’s cold. Sniffling or constantly going snff. Something like that.
Я вырасту я вырасту я никогда не вырасту: I grow, I grow, I’ll never grow up.
Мне холодно мне холодно мне очень очень холодно: I’m cold, I’m cold, I’m very, very cold.
Lyrics on
Genius.com, with an explanation from the creators themselves that, when writing the song, they thought of a fisherman at sea in winter (мы думали о рыбаке, который выходит в море в лодке зимой). He’s cold, sniffing and thinking a lot (ему холодно, он нюхает и много думает), thinking about the fish he will catch. But как видите (as you see), в финальной версии песни (in the final version) нет ни рыбы, ни рыбака (there’s no fish, nor fisherman).
Остался только холод: only the cold remained.
Also included in the compilation Новое племя 2015. See
Colta.ru, listen on
Spotify.
Interviews on
Sobaka.ru and
Afisha.ru.
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Most of the music here is also in an
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Russian Song Lyrics.
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