Old Friend

Lyrics: Sergio Rykov · 09.10.2026

Music: Sergio Rykov · 09.10.2026

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Automatic translation — only to convey the meaning. The song is sung in: ru.

Dedicated to those who carry invisible threads of support and love through all their lives.

Quiet rustle of paws in the hallway,

Ragged ball is lying on the desk.

He who never once had been to the seaside

Is meeting his very last dawn on the earth.

Chorus

I'm not crying, oh no, I'm not crying.

I'm not silent — I sob as you go.

And I thought it was meant to be different.

My old friend slips away in sleep.

And my gaze glides across the worn floorboards,

To the toys on the floor in the nook.

And the legs of the chairs sing their own song.

I stroke gently: "sleep, sleep", and I hum.

Chorus

I'm not crying, my friend, I'm not crying.

Every day's a gift to me.

And I thought it would pass, and like always

You would race full speed away.

Let me have, my dear friend, this one weakness,

Only joy of the years we lived.

In my heart you're alive, chasing like always

That same rubber ball out in the yard.