I am on the job, I’ve got a knife, Don’t hurt me, or you’ll lose your life. And then I go to have a drink. No matter what the rumors say, What I have earned I drink away. I’ll always act that way, I think. A man comes up to me and says: "Life isn’t easy nowadays, And men like you I want to kill". But I have outdone the boy, I do not talk, but I destroy, I kill my foes and always will. And if you care for a chat, Let’s have a drink, sit down, lad. We’ll work it out anyway. But if you are like that young ass, There is one law for all of us, And it will always be that way.
© Alec Vagapov. Translation, 1999