Justyna Steczkowska - Grande valse brillante

You - one vodka after another at the bar...
Eyes scanning the wooden hall,
And your heart's pounding.
(Do you remember?)
the orchestra
slowly
subsides
dies down
he says
that right away
(Do you remember, how you with me..?)
your eyes met
with mine,
you're coming
make your way
in a daze -
almost
in just a moment
(Do you remember how you danced with me?...)
You come near
on tiptoe
and right away
above our heads
thundered the waltz
we are swept up for a life-and-death dance

by Grande Valse Brillante

Do you remember how you waltzed with me,
A virgin, madonna, the legend of those days?
Do you remember how the whole world rushed to dance,
The world that fell in your arms?
A frightened blasphemer,
You pressed to your heart
That hidden pair of blossoms,
Hotly uplifted,
Breathing in unison
Like all of me, in conjecture and fog...
And these two above those two,
that also are, but aren't
‘cause they're covered with lashes,
Hidden inside, and cast downward
It’s as if they were there
And caressed with blueness
Once this one, than the other, half and half.

When you roll across the ceiling,
And touch the stars with your nose,
When you spin along the ground,
Then feign a strongman.
Flex your feeble muscles,
Strain your weak chest
I shall have an athlete
And hussar for husband

Do you remember how you waltzed with me,
A virgin, madonna, the legend of those days?
Do you remember how the whole world rushed to dance,
The world that fell in your arms?
A frightened blasphemer,
You pressed to your heart
That hidden pair of blossoms,
Hotly uplifted,
Breathing in unison
Like all of me, in conjecture and fog...
And these two above those two,
that also are, but aren't
‘cause they're covered with lashes,
Hidden inside, and cast downward
It’s as if they were there
And caressed with blueness
Once this one, than the other, half and half

Suddenly, a foot got stuck,
A splinter's lodged in a shoe
'Cause my pretender for husband
Has a hole in the sole.
But he always pulls away -
Is free already, is fine,
And he's waltzing, shuffling along
With the turned-up sole.

Do you remember how you waltzed with me,
A virgin, madonna, the legend of those days?
Do you remember how the whole world rushed to dance,
The world that fell in your arms?
A frightened blasphemer,
You pressed to your heart
That hidden pair of blossoms,
Hotly uplifted,
Breathing in unison
Like all of me, in conjecture and fog...
And these two above those two,
that also are, but aren't
‘cause they're covered with lashes,
Hidden inside, and cast downward
It’s as if they were there
And caressed with blueness
Once this one, than the other, half and half...