Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Последний Звонок (Poslednii Zvonok) by Люся Чеботина (Lyusya Chebotina) from Russian to English.
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Moi privet tebe izdaleka
Sending you my greetings from afar
Kak mi schastlivi s toboi na foto
How happy you and I are in the photo
Ya v tvoei rubashke u okna
I'm in your shirt by the window
S nashego poslednego zvonka, zvonka
Since our last day of school, our last call
Ideal’naya drama
A perfect drama
Million sovpadenii
A million coincidences
Nol’ pogreshnostei
Not a single flaw
Ya kogda-to po gluposti
Once, like a fool
Prinyal tak mnogo nevernikh reshenii
I made so many wrong choices
Kto-to bil postarshe
Someone else was a bit older
Nu, a ya dlya tebya prochitannii tomik
And to you I'm a book you've already read
Eto bil bulgakov i
It was Bulgakov, and
Pro mastera kniga
The book about the Master
Letit na stolik!
Goes flying onto the table!
Ti khotel ob”yasnit’sya
You wanted to explain
Pochemu ne prishyol na prazdnik
Why you didn't come to the party
Do sikh por mne snitsya
I still dream about
Tot buket, chto ne mne podaren
That bouquet you gave to someone else
Ne nashel slova
You couldn't find the words
Umolyal dat’ vtoroi shans!
You begged for a second chance!
Znaesh’, pervaya lyubov’
You know, first love
Bivaet lish’ raz
Only happens once
Moi privet tebe izdaleka
Sending you my greetings from afar
Kak mi schastlivi s toboi na foto
How happy you and I are in the photo
Ya v tvoei rubashke u okna
I'm in your shirt by the window
S nashego poslednego zvonka, zvonka
Since our last day of school, our last call
Moi privet tebe izdaleka
Sending you my greetings from afar
Kak mi schastlivi s toboi na foto
How happy you and I are in the photo
Ya v tvoei rubashke u okna
I'm in your shirt by the window
S nashego poslednego zvonka, zvonka
Since our last day of school, our last call
Na kholodnikh ulitsakh
On the cold streets
Vizhu tebya, kak budto vnov’
I see you, as if all over again
Opyat’ ti khmurish’sya
You're frowning again
Samaya pervaya lyubov’!
My very first love!
Na fotke yamochki
Those dimples in the photo
Ti pomnish’ vse, ti ne zabil
You remember it all, you haven't forgotten
Stoish’ u menya v ramochke
I keep you in a little frame
Vot bi chetvero nas tam bilo!
If only there were four of us there!
Gde mi seichas?
Where are we now?
Patriki?
Patriarch's Ponds?
Budto bi zdes’ nikogda ne zhil!
Like I never even lived here!
Bili b mi na titanike
If we were on the Titanic
Ya di kaprio bi dlya tebya ozhivil!
I'd bring DiCaprio back to life for you!
Togda ne slozhil kuplet
Back then I couldn't put a verse together
No segodnya smog podobrat’ slova
But today I found the words
Uzhe pozdno speshit’ k rassvetu
It's too late to rush toward the dawn
Obnimi menya!
Hold me!
Moi privet tebe izdaleka
Sending you my greetings from afar
Kak mi schastlivi s toboi na foto
How happy you and I are in the photo
Ya v tvoei rubashke u okna
I'm in your shirt by the window
S nashego poslednego zvonka, zvonka
Since our last day of school, our last call
Moi privet tebe izdaleka
Sending you my greetings from afar
Kak mi schastlivi s toboi na foto
How happy you and I are in the photo
Ya v tvoei rubashke u okna
I'm in your shirt by the window
S nashego poslednego zvonka, zvonka
Since our last day of school, our last call
Ti seichas navernyaka odna
I bet you're alone right now
Yesli vdrug zabila, ya, napomnyu
In case you've forgotten, I'll remind you
Chto khochu vernut’ vsyo, kak togda
That I want it all back the way it was
S nashego poslednego zvonka, zvonka
Since our last day of school, our last call
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This one is a love letter to a first love, sent years too late. The chorus is a snapshot: "Мой привет тебе издалека" (my greetings to you from far away), "Как мы счастливы с тобой на фото" (how happy we are together in the photo), "Я в твоей рубашке у окна" (me in your shirt by the window), all dating back to "нашего последнего звонка" (our last bell). The последний звонок (last bell) is the big Russian school ceremony at the end of the final year, when graduating students hear the school bell ring for them one last time. So this is a school romance, frozen at the very moment school ended.
The song is a duet, and the verses tell two sides of the story. One side remembers being treated like "прочитанный томик" (a book already read), and the book in question is Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, "Про мастера книга" (the book about the Master), tossed onto the table. Then there is the sore spot: "Тот букет, что не мне подарен" (that bouquet that was given to someone else) and a no-show at the celebration. The other side admits he "не нашел слова" (couldn't find the words) back then and begged for a second chance, and now finally "смог подобрать слова" (managed to find the words). His lines get playful: "Патрики?" means Patriarch's Ponds, a fashionable Moscow neighbourhood (and the opening setting of that same Bulgakov novel), and he jokes that if they were on the Titanic he would bring DiCaprio back to life for her. A bit much? Sure, but that is teenage love talking.
The ending is the real ache: "Знаешь, первая любовь бывает лишь раз" (you know, first love only happens once), and he is still hoping to "вернуть всё, как тогда" (bring everything back the way it was then).
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