One loves rock music, another loves juice
And a third goes through a wonderland
And a fourth is always singing of three or four
But what use is this? What use is this?
Before we had so many rooms
Full of people, full of ideas
And now we have nothing, only a fish rots
From the head down, by fascist children
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Children of minutes will never understand
The cycle of hours
And they will come to the threshold and break the door
And crack the pans of the scales
They don't believe in the victory of good over evil
As in the victory of evil over good
They know that they have only a gray day
And they want to live that day
Children of minutes
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And one's always shouting, and another keeps silent
Well, and the third gets high, driving in bolts
But the cops chopped off the horns
Of the car that was going east
I would like to ask, why and for what
You hung a gold medal on your chest?
In this hall everyone thinks the same as you
But you stare into the distance, you stare into the distance
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Children of minutes will never understand
The cycle of hours
And they will come to the threshold and break the door
And crack the pans of the scales
They don't believe in the victory of good over evil
As in the victory of evil over good
They know that they have only a gray day
And they want to live that day
Children of minutes
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And still I would like to find out: why
Did we so lightly trade the sea for a basin?
But my friends immediately answered me in chorus:
If you're not with us, then you're against us
If this is a problem, then it's so minor
If this is a task, then it's so light
The children of minutes are breaking the door,
Not having noticed that there's no lock on it
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