Below, I translated the lyrics of the song ФАРАОН (FARAON) by Люся Чеботина (Lyusya Chebotina) from Russian to English.
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Ya otklyuchayu giperkontrol’
I'm switching off my need for control
Ne zhenskaya dolya slezi i bol’
Tears and pain are no woman's lot
Mne naplevat’, chto glaza vsem mozolit
I don't care that everyone's sick of seeing it
Moya novaya rol’ l’vitsi na vole
My new role: a lioness running free
Vdrug iz neotkuda yavilsya krasivii
Suddenly a gorgeous guy showed up out of nowhere
Obichno posle takikh nuzhni polgoda terapii
Usually after guys like that you need six months of therapy
Davai oboidemsya bez umozaklyuchenii
Let's not jump to conclusions
Milii, mne nuzhna drama i priklyucheniya
Baby, I need drama and adventure
On tak sil’no nravitsya
I like him so much
I ya uzhe ne znayu, chto sama khochu
And I don't even know what I want anymore
Kogda on tak ulibaetsya
When he smiles like that
Mne kazhetsya, ya vse yemu na svete proshchu
I feel like I'd forgive him anything in the world
Mama, on tak sil’no nravitsya
Mom, I like him so much
Pust’ shans na harru yend odin na million
Even if the chance of a happy ending is one in a million
No kogda on ulibaetsya
But when he smiles
On pravit mnoi kak nastoyashchii faraon
He rules me like a real pharaoh
Mama, on faraon
Mom, he's a pharaoh
Kto i otkuda ti, ya khochu znat’
Who are you and where are you from? I want to know
V chem tvoi podvokh ili yest’ chto skrivat’
What's your catch, or do you have something to hide?
Stala s toboi bezzashchitnoi i slaboi
With you I've become defenseless and weak
Navernoe, eto i yest’ krasnii flag
Maybe that's the red flag right there
Kazhetsya mne vse nereal’nim
It all feels unreal to me
Ne mozhet nastol’ko vse bit’ ideal’no
Nothing can be this perfect
Muzhchina, chto derzhit slovo s vneshnost’yu apollona
A man who keeps his word, with the looks of Apollo
Takikh kak on
Guys like him
Ne videl dazhe vavilon
not even Babylon has seen
On ne takoi kak vse, mama, on etalon
He's not like the rest, Mom, he's the gold standard
Pravit mnoi tak budto faraon
He rules me as if he were a pharaoh
On tak sil’no nravitsya
I like him so much
I ya uzhe ne znayu, chto sama khochu
And I don't even know what I want anymore
Kogda on tak ulibaetsya
When he smiles like that
Mne kazhetsya, ya vse yemu na svete proshchu
I feel like I'd forgive him anything in the world
Mama, on tak sil’no nravitsya
Mom, I like him so much
Pust’ shans na harru yend odin na million
Even if the chance of a happy ending is one in a million
No kogda on ulibaetsya
But when he smiles
On pravit mnoi kak nastoyashchii faraon
He rules me like a real pharaoh
Mama, on faraon
Mom, he's a pharaoh
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Lyusya Chebotina opens "ФАРАОН" by flipping a switch: "Я отключаю гиперконтроль" (I switch off the hypercontrol). She is done being careful. Tears and pain are "не женская доля" (not a woman's lot), she doesn't care that she's an eyesore to everyone ("глаза всем мозолит", literally rubbing calluses on everyone's eyes, a Russian idiom for being irritatingly in view), and she's a "львица на воле" (lioness on the loose).
Then a handsome man turns up "из неоткуда" (out of nowhere), and she knows exactly what kind he is: "Обычно после таких нужны полгода терапии" (Usually after guys like that you need six months of therapy). That line is genuinely funny. She asks for "драма и приключения" (drama and adventures) anyway, and the chorus is her confessing to her mom: when he smiles, "он правит мной как настоящий фараон" (he rules me like a real pharaoh). The odds of a "happy end", sung in English, are "один на миллион" (one in a million).
The second verse gets suspicious. She asks "В чем твой подвох" (What's your catch), notices she's become defenseless and weak with him, and admits "Наверное, это и есть красный флаг" (I guess that's the red flag). He's a man who keeps his word with the looks of Apollo, the Greek god who stands for male beauty, and even Babylon, the legendary ancient city, never saw anyone like him. It's a bit much, and that's the point: she can see the warning signs and is choosing the pharaoh anyway.
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