It was the first music video
I had ever seen.
My mother got from a friend,
The girls band was singing in English,
Laughing and dancing, swimming in the pool,
I didn't know what they were saying,
I thought, may be:
Life is not what you see,
It's what you dream.
I had never seen so much new clothes,
So much new shoes.
We had nothing even close,
We had nothing to choose.
For me, the song, the girls, the music,
Became freedom, knocking the door.
Life is not what you see,
It's what you dream.
Many my friends started to drink and smoking, could not stop.
Someone stay still in that wondering world.
We were alone after school,
Parents always working,
Nothing to do.
That was forever excuse.
Life is not what you see,
It's what you dream.
I remember my friend gave me
A cigarette and glass of cheap vodka:
Try, you will see real things.
I tried only one time,
Only one time in my life,
Because that night
The girls band was singing on
Our dirty and empty street,
They were singing only for me,
I understood every word,
Even I didn't speak their language:
Life is not what you see,
It's what you dream.
Don't do it, believe us please!
