"I am free"

Only when you swim against the current

You understand what a free opinion is worth.

The links are assembled into long chains,

The life line becomes a dot.

Stitches and days, stitch by stitch

They sew your body with soul and spark.

Here, behind bars, the chief-colonel,

My freedom is a radio.

I'm free like a bird in the sky

I'm free, I forgot what fear means.

To be different means to be always alone.

You choose what you want - a bag or a prison.

No one is given freedom just like that,

There is no exit from it and no entrance to it.

Soda to make the tea blacker.

It's clear? Then pour yourself some.

I'm running some kind of sitting marathon

Okay, there's a receiver in the tape recorder.

Tea, cigarettes, answers to questions,

Interrogations, more interrogations.

My receiver is one-way;

Dash and dots, Arabic script.

I can't tell, but I can hear.

I have seen a rat become a mouse.

What can not be erased, how strong is not three,

Freedom is what I have inside.

Sergey Shnurov, "I'm free", 2003

May 6, 2013 - a rally on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. See you.