So Many, Many Years




So many, many years
Everything’s like before:
Neither cash nor girls appear,
I can’t have them any more.

No matter how I used to steal
I tried day after day.
I should have saved a great deal
But I drank it all away.

I have no roof and no walls
Nor the skin I had before
And I haven’t any friends at all,
I can’t have them any more.

I’ve vodka for only three
And my hearts just with spades will go
My pancakes: they’re all lumpy
And not just the first¹ - I know!

¹ There is a Russian saying: "the first pancake is always lumpy" - that is, it does not matter if the first time things have not worked out. since it will be fine afterwards.