WAY DOWN IN THE BLACK
(А. РУДИЧЕВ)
Crown of creation or a chain of fools
A fleeting glimpse of light in space and time
A freak of nature, venomous and cruel
Our rotting flesh pretends it has a mind
A chemical reaction out of hand
A wolf pack on the prowl out of control
It won’t be long before we reach the end
Who said he hopes to die before he’s old?
CHORUS
We promise to be faithful, bold and true
We swear to never leave the right track
We reach out for the sky of crystal blue
But we end up way down in the black
We build our walls and towers oh so high
We take our chances in the name of love
And some of us believe we never die
The laughing stock of all the gods above
It doesn’t take a comet to come ‘round
It could occur on any given day
Like dominoes our prophets all fall down
From Martin Luther King to JFK
CHORUS
A guillotine or an electric chair
A time bomb or a killer on a plane
A gunman waiting in his hidden lair
We seal our doom all over and again
All history will just repeat itself
A carnival of vanity and greed
A swarm of bats descending down to hell
We kill ourselves and bite the hand that feeds
CHORUS
