Grande Valse Brillante [English translation]

You are downing one vodka after another at the bar...

With your eyes scanning the wooden hall - your heart is thudding

(Do you remember?)

The band is slowly waning, dying down

He says that right away

(Do you remember, how you with me...?)

Your eyes already found mine

Already - in a daze - you make your way

Already, in a moment…

(Do you remember how you danced with me?...)

You're coming on tiptoe and right away, above our heads,

has thundered the waltz

We are swept up for a life-and-death dance

By Grande Valse Brillante

Refrain:

Do you remember how you waltzed with me,

A virgin, madonna, the legend of those days

Do you remember how the whole world rushed to dance

The world that fell in your arms

A frightened blasphemer, you pressed to your heart

That hidden blooming pair

Fervently uplifted, breathing in unison

Like all of me, in conjecture and mist

And those two above these two, which also are, but aren’t

‘cause are covered with lashes, hidden inside, and cast downward

It’s as if they were there and caressed with blueness

Once this one, than the other, half and half.

Your eyes rolling across the ceiling - you touch the stars with your nose

Spin upon the ground, feign a strongman

Flexing frail muscles, straining feeble chest

I will have an athlete and hussar for my man

Refrain...

Suddenly, a foot got stuck, a splinter lodged in a shoe

'Cause my pretender for husband has a hole in the sole.

But he always pulls away, is free, it's fine

And he's waltzing, shuffling along with the turned-up sole

Refrain...