Кукрыниксы – No Big Deal (Это не беда)

About leaving and being certain. Не найти в доме дома: no home found in the house. Лучше пусти меня: better to let me go. And что там не ждут меня, that they aren’t waiting for me there: это не беда – it doesn’t matter, no big deal.


Горшенев

From Кукрыниксы (Kukryniksy), a Saint Petersburg band now defunct, with Это не беда (1999) as their most well-known legacy (along with Чёрная невеста, Знай, and Колдовство). The new band of lead singer Алексей Горшенёв (1975, brother of Михаил) is called Горшенев. Learn more about Кукрыниксы at Reproduktor, 24smi, and Wikipedia.


   Это не беда, что там не ждут меня,
   Что не сохранил с тобой себя,
   Что я так уйду и, может, не пойму
   Что в мечте остался как в плену.
   Это не беда, что я иду туда,
   Что не озираюсь робко

   И неловко иду.

   ( Lyrics)



No Big Deal

There’s also an English version by Even Blurry Videos (2020).



Дороги

From the same creator, an English cover (2020) of Кукрыниксы’s Дороги (2002, lyrics).



Надежда

Another bonus track from Кукрыниксы (2015), with some similar lyrical themes. The snippet of English in the lyrics is interpreted by some as just one fix, while others hear just plan X.


    Сорву с себя что смогу, что мешает жить –
    И стоя, и на бегу – знаю, кем мне быть.
    Где в этот раз, чёртов шанс изменить судьбу.
    Надежда есть – ждать час Икс. Just one fix.



Most of the music here is also available in an R1 playlist on YouTube (from recent to old).
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