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Lyoli
The lash whistles, the blood spurts — and my dad called it a masterpiece.
I was really proud of this song when I wrote it — it felt like something very new for me personally. But somehow nobody I showed it to thought much of it. In time I stopped thinking much of it myself: it does drag, and the sound is a bit too lo-fi even by Suno 2 standards. Then, some time later, I showed it to my dad (I’d been waiting for the whole album to be ready and hadn’t shown it to him on its own). He was lukewarm about the album, but “Lyoli [was] just a masterpiece.” Go figure!
The English is Juliet Soskice’s 1917 translation; the song sings Nekrasov’s original.
Music: Vova Zakharov
Lyrics: Nikolay Nekrasov