“ЧЁРНЫЕ СНЕЖКИ (Black Snow)” – Pussy Riot feat. MARA 37
Putin’s archenemies are back with MARA 37 with an eerie tune about a dystopian world created by unchecked abuses against our environment. In a lead up to the release of the video, the group made a series of guerrilla campaigns according to their website. In an open letter to Putin and his “cronies” from Nadya Tolokonnikova:
“You might remember me for that 2-year prison sentence you slapped me with back in 2012, when performed a 40-second act of protest and beseeched the Virgin Mary to chase you away…But right now I’m not interested in talking about church or prison…I want to talk about rivers of blood, black snow, toxic waste, and acid rain.”
[LYRIC TRANSLATION]
NADYA
in a black black city
in a yard, among the sulfur darkness
we’ll be having a black snowball fight w/ you
in black black mittens
in the void and silence
we’ll go for a walk
under the black sulfur sky
i see the shape of god in acid smoke
he’s choked on the smog but winked at me a little
the acid rain hasn’t fucking stopped since last year
my eyes are being corroded, I’m hard to get
a blizzard’s burning out my air, we’re buried in ash
we’re the furthest from Pluto, we’re a nuclear planet
we’ve dominated nature, but we’re slaves to the internet
i’m marching in the ranks and quietly crying about it
red water flows in Russian Russian rivers
dust sticks to my eyelids, I’m hanging on a thread
red water flows in Russian Russian rivers
dust sticks to my eyelids, I’m hanging on a thread
MARA 37
I’ve been eating black snow since I was 14 years old
i close my eyes, i’m putting on a plastic bag
it’s dark in the bag and i don’t see all the sorrow
i’m going to stay there and die like a grandpa
it’s beautiful because we’re from Russia
we’re mute, bitch we’re mute
dirty children, smutty beasts
we were playing with the snow and suddenly disappeared
AAAAAAA
there’s black snow in Russian prison camps
black on black
tastes like blood over the prison camp
black smog from the factories
creates black snow
bitch we’re fed up with the black snow in epaulettes
black snow over Russia makes us cough up blood
NADYA
red water flows in Russian Russian rivers
dust sticks to my eyelids, I’m hanging on a thread
red water flows in Russian Russian rivers
dust sticks to my eyelids, I’m hanging on a thread
i’m screaming like a Australopithecus, you’re shooting bang bang
hey cop, don’t be so clumsy cuz you’ll shoot yourself
the sounds of terrible explosions of the century, I’m running, but I’m running to nowhere
corpses of half-humans, corpses of single-industry towns
i visited Eden yesterday, where only oligarchs live
there’s no smog, there’s no death, every newborn gets a Maybach
Putin’s building himself a bunker in the depths of the Altai mountains
i’m sticking underground, i’m suffocating under a collapsed mine