WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:07.620 This song is called "A Victim of Television." It's humorous, but also a little bit sad. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:21.000 I have a TV, give me the lectern I'll holler so it's heard for miles around. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:28.000 It's not a window--I wouldn't even spit out of a window It's as if they broke me a door to the whole world. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:34.700 Everything delivered, the very widest selection Vacations in the Crimea, a hurricane, and Kobzon 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:41.000 A movie, part seven--that could be the fix I didn't see the previous six. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:47.750 I turn on Channel 1--there's some diving Well, that's OK, but starting at eight 00:00:47.750 --> 00:00:55.300 "Let's Go, Girls!"--what will they come up with! They're all in aprons--you could go mad! 00:00:55.310 --> 00:01:02.300 I have a TV set--my home is not just an apartment I grieve with all the grief of the world 00:01:02.300 --> 00:01:09.200 I breathe deeply all the air of the world I see Nixon, along with his First Lady. 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.250 Here's one for you, Foreign heads of state--eye to eye, face to face 00:01:14.250 --> 00:01:22.020 I nudge my stool a little closer to the set And end up with this head in a tte--tte 00:01:22.020 --> 00:01:25.500 Next there are shockworkers In the bread factory 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:35.400 Going on about baking until eight o'clock And then my favorite--"Let's Go, Guys!" They shoot, they leap; you could go mad! 00:01:36.300 --> 00:01:43.350 If you don't watch it--well, maybe you're not a blockhead But, at the very least, you are a little stupid: 00:01:43.350 --> 00:01:50.250 You don't even know that they're "looking for talents" You have no idea who is gifted! 00:01:50.250 --> 00:01:56.460 Now there, USSR v. West Germany, And there's my good buddy Mller. 00:01:56.460 --> 00:02:03.200 Tremors and shock, but then the interview, Thank goodness I'm not on orders to drink. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:09.100 Somebody there is heading off to Varna, And I can only go to my apartment. 00:02:09.100 --> 00:02:16.580 "Let's Go, Girls!"--"Let's Go, Guys!" I'm not afraid to go mad for them. 00:02:16.580 --> 00:02:23.700 How can I convince my stubborn Nastia?! Nastia wants to go to the movies, after all it's Saturday 00:02:23.700 --> 00:02:30.500 Nastia insists that I've become addicted To the stupid box for idiots. 00:02:30.500 --> 00:02:37.400 Yes, I am addicted--I step into my apartment, I look--there is Nixon along with Georges Pompidou! 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:44.300 Thank goodness, I brought a bottle I had a shot for Georges; for Richard, it's true, I did not. 00:02:44.300 --> 00:02:50.200 Well, reality is even more nightmarish I turned on the fourth channel and went out on the balcony: 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:57.700 "Let's Go, Girls!" and "Let's Go, Guys!" Are being honored at the UN! 00:02:57.700 --> 00:03:04.460 Well and later, in Kanatchikova Dacha Where, unfortunately, the service is overbearing. 00:03:04.460 --> 00:03:11.600 I deliriously watched all the programs They were all in defense of Angela Davis. 00:03:11.600 --> 00:03:18.010 I heard: don't cry, everything is fine in the Taiga We won the USSR-West Germany game, 00:03:18.010 --> 00:03:24.450 One hundred scoundrels have been put in the pen, And Magomaev is singing on "KVN." 00:03:24.450 --> 00:03:30.500 Well, and reality is even more glamorous Two televisions--turn and spin: 00:03:30.500 --> 00:03:38.080 "Let's Go, Girls!"--"Let's Go, Guys!" I'm not afraid to go mad for them.