Spring
- 1. the "tired ice" is a poetic image for spring's thawing ice, that can be found in 19th century poems
- 2. вино(wine) and вина(guilt/fault) are very similar, so that sounds close to "wine turns into water"
- 3. lit. "worms", meant as "subservient people"
- 4. assuming "твой каждый день". The current transcription means "remember that every day" but sounds a bit fishy
- 5. that's a rather direct allusion to concentration camps. Well, political correctness is not Pornofilmi's middle name...
- 6. lit "closer and warmer"
- 7. that's certainly an original metaphor :D
1. | Штурмуя Небеса (Shturmuya Nebesa) |
2. | Бойцовский клуб (Boytsovskiy klub) |
3. | Полюса (Polyusa) |
1. | поднимется с колен |
2. | Раскачивать лодку |
"Усталый лёд" - это из Мережковского: http://merezhkovsky.ru/lib/poetry/mart.html
Послушал песенку.
"Время и стекло" - возможно вот эти ребята https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Время_и_Стекло (в смысле попса) возможно смысл - прямой (there's no time left whether you rock your boat either right or left)
Где залитая ложью и водкой, ->Где, залитое ложью и водкой,
Then I'll check up the rest of it.
I believe it is "время истекло " meaning "time is down", 'it is too late'
И когда придет новая весна,
И усталый лед пробудит от сна,
Будут с ней звенеть ветром в волосах
Неспокойные голоса
The general sense is that when a new spring comes it will wake up the tired ice and mutinous voices will start to sing like wind in hair. "Голос звенит" means that it is heard distinctly resounding the nearby area. This metaphor is a kinda lame, I'd say, as for me... Or the howling of wind in the ears was meant. There may be a kind of metonymy that is hard to interprete, introduced for the sake of the rhyme "голоса - в волосах". I'd say that 'voices singing in the ears like wind' would be a decent rendition.
It's useless to rock the boat, you only wasting time. Where did you get the glass from? Also, "неспокойные и непокорные" it's not the same.
The time is up . It's too late to rock the boat. The time has expired for that action.
У «всех» есть второе имя — никто, и совсем нет лица — пробел.
(С) М. Цветаева. Письмо детям. http://izbrannoe.com/news/mysli/marina-tsvetaeva-detyam/
"мелким бесом" это фразеологизм, грмматически выступает как наречие.
Дышит (как?) мелким бесом - услужливо, стараясь угодить. Чем мельче бес, тем ниже его ступень в иерархии, тем он более выслуживается перед своим "начальством".
У меня такое понимание. Может быть, авторы имели в виду другое.
А с фильтрами - это в простейшем случае поиграть с полосовым эквалайзером. Человеческий голос занимает диапазон от 300 до 5000 Гц, остальное можно приглушить для наилучшей разборчивости. Правда, могут возникнуть проблемы с шипящими и свистящими, но обычно это не сильно мешает. Правда у панков много инструментов шпарящих именно в этом диапазоне. Но это у них так и должно быть, так и задумано.
Черви весят бюллетень. Нет здесь никакого крещения и "Ballot papers". Where the guilt turns into water.
Бюллетень не крестят а он вроде всегда весит на стене. Может хватит искать сужденья из забытых газет. И почему бы чертям не повесить его, у них ведь тоже безработица.
Not always. It also could have many other meanings. Bulletin definition, a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public. Most of the time by authorities. You do have a lot of those( чертей) , who pretend to be the authority.
Maybe you're right, after all you are living there and I'm too far removed. By the way, I do love this song. It's very powerful and right to the point.
I do get the meaning, at last. The worms( authorities) marking crosses on ballot papers and no matter how you vote, the result will be the same.
Oh, "worm" is a pretty ancient Russian poetic metaphor:
Я связь миров, повсюду сущих,
Я крайня степень вещества;
Я средоточие живущих,
Черта начальна божества;
Я телом в прахе истлеваю,
Умом громам повелеваю,
Я царь — я раб — я червь — я бог!
(C) Г. Р. Державин. Бог
rvb.ru/18vek/derzhavin/01text/021.htm
Hence the meaning of the song's lines about worms crossing the voting papers is the following:
Subservient people (worms) are crossing (putting a cross sign there) the voting papers and before this it is said that they do it substituting their liberty with a yoke (a metaphor for captivity). Also that "crossing" brings here a kind of religious/superstitious sense (as if they wished the things wouldn't turn worse that would probably happen, in their narrow-minded opinion, if they voted in a 'wrong' way).
That's my humbliest opinion, though...
There's probably another version of it -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMe3VHxZbgY
I'm currently experiencing problems with YouTube. :( What's the duck?
Can you watch this one?
It's only my sick imagination. I'm going to bed now. It's late and back to hard labour tomorrow. I'll leave it to you guys to go through this song with a fine comb.
Good night.
Wow guys, you seems to have already dissected this song into atoms. The only thing that I've noticed in Pierre's work is future tense in conditionals. ;) As it seems the lyrics are being re-fused from the sound-bytes by Brat, I'll leave it to him and will return to it when he's done. If I won't forget it all till then, that's it. :D
petit élève написал(а):"would come" would rather express a repetitive action in the past : "every morning he would have breakfast and set off to work..."
A pair of "would-would" will certainly produce this effect. (When he would come home, he would take off his boots at the entrance). And it could also add some uncertainty when used in a certain context concerning the present. (That's like boots pounding! Is that Peter? - Oh, when he would come home, he would take off his boots at the entrance.) That means the speaker is not certain whether it's Peter or not; and if it is him, something might have happened that made him hurry, because he used to take off his boots at the entrance, normally...
This is how we compress meanings in English, because 'would', being itself the emanation of 'will' into the past, still bears a print of future on it. And again we should remember the beginning of Eliot's "Burnt Norton":
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
And what about a pair of "would-will""?
When a new spring would come Обычно, когда приходит новая весна,
It would wake up the tired ice. Она пробуждает усталый лёд.
And the _____________ voices will sing И____________голоса будут слышны
Like wind playing hair around the ears Подобно ветру, играющему в волосах
It will be a view taken from another viewpoint but still not the very perfect translation, because Russian has its own rules of meaning compression that are not fully adaptable to the other languages... We'll surely lose something trying to preserve this or that aspect. But at the same time this opens a way to the variety of other possible translations. ;)
In addition, while you're analyzing a piece of poetry, you should always bear in mind that the author had quite a lot of options when he composed this or that line.
Look, there's "И когда придет НОВАЯ весна"
"И" and "НОВАЯ" tell us that it's not the first time for spring to come, but that should be a 'new' one coming.
At the same time "И" shows us a kind of uncertainty, making us rely upon the prior experience. Otherwise it might have been smth. like "А когда", "Но когда", "В час, когда" and so on. Also note that "голоса БУДУТ (с ней) ЗВЕНЕТЬ" and not "ЗАЗВЕНЯТ" that removes the sense of immediate following that otherwise should have been translated as "voices will start singing" .
Nevertheless I like the current rendition as it dashes a kind of promising hue...
BTW, having listened to the audio track of the main video carefully I'm about to make some corrections to the lyrics:
First of all it should be "Твой каждый день" after "Черви крестят бюллетень" sung as "Тво-и каждый день". That's good to find out because the current expression makes little sense, if any. And it should be "Где клеймо обличает за голос" instead of the passive voice: "Где клеймом обличается голос". It sounds better but I still prefer the variant from the other video - "Где клеймом отмечают за голос", that could be footnoted as a variant. And if we found another video it would probably yield another variant... :D
Ну вот, вроде бы песню препарировали, теперь можно хоронить... *devil_smile*
Hello there :)
I would say you are all thinking a bit to hard about this. English tend to be a bit more straightforward on this sort of thing, we don't do all that agreement of tenses and prefer to just use the simple present. So the most natural way for the first verse to read would be just:
When a new spring comes
and the tired ice wakes from its slumber
with it will ring, like a wind ruffling hair,
restless voices.
However - if you really did want to underline the uncertainty then a rather elegant way would be to use 'should'
Should a new spring come (or: If a new spring should come)
and the tired ice wake from its slumber
with it will ring, like a wind ruffling hair,
restless voices.
(Note: come, wake (not comes, wakes) following 'should' )
That might have been a good idea to use that unusual 'shall'...*thumbs_up* But Gavin's 'should' should do the job better.
As for "Твой каждый день" - it comes after "бюллетень" and may refer to it. There's an ambiguity of the kind... :(
There is a possible way to say merely 'Every day' to help keep it unriddled...
petit élève написал(а):Где клеймом отмечают за голос / Где клеймом обличается голос -> this reflexive+passive construct seems to be rather common in Russian, like "весной, воздух легко дышается / легко дышать воздух весной". Since a similar construct would sound artificial in English
In English it would be "In spring, the air is easily breatht/It is easy to breathe with air in spring" (It reads as funny in English as your phrase does in Russian) But it does not matter at all. You can use either the passive or active voice, the only difference could be present in the verbs "отмечают" (to mark) and "обличает" (to unmask) but I suppose there's no need to use any of them since we have a pretty good verb 'to execrate'. It fits the meaning perfectly. :) -> They execrate the freedom of those wanting to have a mind of their own... :)
Mine too, I'm afraid. It seems according to the English grammar if the action is single or repeatable is dependent on the context.
Even the future in the conditional doesn't help, the only thing I can think of is to use present perfect in it:
When a new spring has come
and the tired ice has woken them up,
then the future in the main part will make it all in the future, or so I hope. ;)
That's what I call 'dangling conditionals', though there's no term for this in English Grammar. But there's a pretty lot of conditional combinations that are still out of the majority of Grammar Guides. The only thing I should say here is that when you say 'when a new spring comes and smth. happens' that means it is very probable to happen, and the enumerated events will surely happen simultaneously. But since there's still a slip between the cup and the lip (and it's permanently present in Russia) some other expressions are to be used there... Pierre used a kind of mixed tense to introduce some feeling of a 'non-100% probability'.
Consider this a work in progress. I can't possibly complete this translation without native help.