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STS 007 Limited Edition Digipack CD
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First press of digipak CD. 12 pages booklet.
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lyrics
Черный всадник, мы с тобой!
Не нужно нам благословенных!
Лишь тьма и чернота
На холсте всегда нетленны
Не печалься, Василиса
Чёрный всадник вдаль умчится
Тьма окрасится искусно
Кисть на холст дарует чувства
Ночь полна красок и художеств
Стой, не двинься, не тревожься
Представь себе, что ты царица
А за спиной твоей
Лишь тьма и чернота
Лишь тьма и чернота
На холсте всегда нетленны
Не печалься, Василиса
Завтра будет, спать ложися
Тьма окрасится искусно
Кисть на холст дарует чувства
Эй, запоры отомкнитесь;
Эй ворота отворитесь!
Ярок свет от черепа глаз
Ступай, настал твой час
Black rider, we are with you!
We don't need the blessed ones!
Only blackness, only darkness
Will never fade from the canvas
Do not worry, Vasilisa,
The Black Rider will dart away
Dark will get dyed so adeptly
Brush against the canvas wakens feelings
Night is full of paint and art
Stop, don't move, don't fret
Imagine - you're a queen
And behind your back
Only blackness, only darkness
Only blackness, only darkness
Will never fade from the canvas
Do not worry, Vasilisa,
Tomorrow will come, go to sleep
Dark will get dyed so adeptly
Brush against the canvas wakens feelings
Hey, latches, unlock;
Hey, gates, open up!
Bright is the light from the skull's eyes
Go now, your time has come.
Vasilisa the Beautiful - the character of Russian fairy tales, and also eponymous drawing of an outstanding artist of the Russian Empire Ivan Bilibin. He was born in the Finnish village Seppälänkylä (smithy village), not far from St. Petersburg. There is a legend that Ivan has Finnish or Karelian origin: indirect confirmation of that is that the picture "Vasilisa the Beautiful" was painted in many places of the different regions populated by northern Finno-Ugric peoples in that time, and the prototype for the picture was created in Vesiegonsk county of the Tver province: the woman in the foreground was a native Karelian from Yogna village.
Ivan Bilibin's picture formed the basis for the art for the track, and the plot from the fairy tale with Baba Yaga partly became the basis for the musical part of the song.
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