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Wikipedia article




'Balde par gulbi' ' is a song by Latvian Rock band Prkons, written by Mris Melgalvis (lyrics) and Juris Kulakovs (music) in 1979 and recorded in 1983.Prkons, Dziesmu izlase #1 19811982 (CD booklet) Written while Latvia was still part of USSR, it is noted for its anti-soviet subtext. The opening part of the song deals with a crow with no sense of humor sitting on a fresh grave and forcing her opinion on everyone. However, after some time, the crow begins to sense something odd about the grave and relives her own tragedy. It is not until the end, when the crow has had enough of the bitter silence, that she realizes what has happened to her and that the crow is "the woman she loves".

Most of the song dwells on the stupidity of killing a swan, but in the end resolves that the swan is so red that one cannot help killing it (consider that in the early 1980s soviet leaders were dying one after another and were usually mourned by broadcasting Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake).

Lyrics



:Krna vrna

:Uz slapa kapa

:Man savu patiesbu rc

:Vai tiem via neattapa ka viss tas - tikai joka pc

:Ak vai cik stulbi

:Ir nosist gulbi

:Bet stulbk vl ja vlk l

:Tad ir tik velnigi stulbiik riet sarkans gulbis kvl

:Tik stulbi kvl

:Ka jsit vl

'Translation:'

:A skinny crow

:On a wet grave

:Croaking her truth to me

:Didn't she really realize that it all is just for fun?

:Oh, how stupid

:It is to beat a swan to death

:But even more stupid if you regret it later

:It is so devilishly stupidin each sunset a red swan glows

:Glows so stupidly

:That one has to beat it again

References



Category:Prkons (band) songs

Category:1979 songs

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