Что сделали бы Пусси Райот?
What Would Pussy Riot Do? *

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Что сделали бы Пусси Райот?

Anti-Folk mainstay Jeffrey Lewis is having a busy year. Not only has he released a collaborative album with bizarro-folk founding father Peter Stampfel (who just celebrated his 74th birthday yesterday, incidentally), he’s also released the “WWPRD” E.P. and toured extensively with his band The Rain. The centerpiece of the E.P. is an idealistic, poetic tribute to Pussy Riot, the female punk band famously being held captive in Russia for the “crime” of staging a protest. Here’s a partial transcription.

текст:

Pussy Riot went to prison

Just to make some people listen

They say church & state’s corrupt

It must be true ‘cuz they’re locked up

Before we lose democracy

You ask yourself, and I’ll ask me -

WWPRD?

Put in jail for two years each

Just for punk rock public speech

What is this, the middle ages?

Let those women out of those cages

Before you choose complacency

You ask yourself, and I’ll ask me -

WWPRD?

Minds can open in a flash

when hit by art or hit by cash

Money wins as like as not

Imagination’s all we’ve got

So let’s just have the decency

For you to ask yourself, and I’ll ask me -

WWPRD?

Cause progress is not guaranteed

I say Pussy Riot is what we need

This ain’t the old Red Army Faction

This is bold, non-violent action

To change the world, the biggest hint is

art is really what convinces

That’s why they always try to buy it

But they couldn’t buy off Pussy Riot

So when you see bands on TV

You ask yourself, and I’ll ask me -

WWPRD?

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