Занавес цвета сажи (A Curtain the Color of Soot)

The credits are rolling on the cinema screen The saddest ending that you’ve ever seen The hero is dead in the rainy street The villain escaped with the absolute cheat The femme fatale is crying alone Next to a disconnected telephone It’s a tragedy written in black and in white Swallowed entirely by the depth of the night We played our parts to the very last line You were yours, and I was mine But the director yelled cut, the lights came on And all of the beautiful magic is gone Fade to black, let the curtain fall There’s no one left to answer the call The mystery is solved, the case is closed The terrible secrets have been exposed Turn off the camera, pack up the track It’s time to fade, fade to black We’ll meet again in another script Where the dialogue is sharp and the guns are gripped But for tonight, the story is done The shadows have conquered the setting sun Fade to black, let the curtain fall There’s no one left to answer the call The mystery is solved, the case is closed The terrible secrets have been exposed Turn off the camera, pack up the track It’s time to fade, fade to black Fade to black...