TISM - Russia

{Verse 1}
I stiffed in Belorussia, blew out in Chernigov
There's a pub in Lithuania I got tossed out
No gigs in Vladivostok, no work in Atbasar
Not movin' all that much stock in Kazakafkankaya

Booed off in Azerbaijan, same thing in Serpukhov
No encore in Astrakhan, Sumy or old Kharkov
I used to hear my records on the Nugagasaya Steppe
Ukraine feels like golden corn, frost of Chekhov Kherebet

Like Lenin, I've been buried above ground in a tomb
Roadie-less I've hurried through Kursk's retreating gloom
The winding streets of Moscow, the chimneys of Zhdanov
Fare the well, for I must go leave all you remind me of

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{Chorus}
Ukraine girls really knock me out
Come and keep your comrade warm
Ukraine girls really knock me out
Come and keep your comrade warm

{Verse 2}
My tongue knows every syllable of Semipalatinsk
And loves the monosyllables of Kursk and Ket and Minsk
The Taz, the Par, the Kaz, the Ob, rivers I've crossed alone
It's like that Bobby Dylan song: "I'm not wanted in my home"

In Kheta, past the Arctic Line, I'm an anachronism
I was a good idea at the time, just like Communism
From Negya Mar to Mangyshlak, the Last Soviet Star
I can't even be exiled back to old Siberia

There's only one place left to sing, one land to hear my pleas
The place that will accept anything if it's from overseas
I go to the only place left to roam as Russia splits asunder
Goodbye to the Kremlin's dome, I'm number one Down Under!

{Pre-Chorus}
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

{Chorus}
Ukraine girls really knock me out
Come and keep your comrade warm
Ukraine girls really knock me out
Come and keep your comrade warm