4 - Anna, me and the war (5 mn 53) Act I Scene 3

And it’s already September
Anna and I live together
Tilling the land is so exhausting
We don’t have a lot of money
But we love each other tenderly
And this mysteri-ous feeling
comforts me, helps me be-ar
The worst difficulties.

Yes but Anna does not accept
This situation and she fights
Day after day just to improve it
She wishes I were less resigned
But we love each other tenderly
And this mysteri-ous feeling
Comforts us, helps us be-ar
The worst difficulties.

Then war broke out…

Life is becoming very hard
And she doesn’t spare our idyll
So that, sometimes, some high tensions mount
Burst out and leave us dispirited
But we love each other tenderly
And this mysterious feeling
Comforts me, helps me bear
The worst difficulties.

Then war goes on…

I want to start a family and I want some children
What else to expect from a couple of twenty-two ?
Anna answers me « wrong time my darling»
I can’t see any future in Russia for our children
Then she shows me the papers displaying the defeats
Of a Russian army no more counting its retreats
Factories unable to produce enough
And Russian leaders cut off from reality

I tell her I still believe in our motherland
I flare up and I claim I want to leave Kotowski
Join a factory, support my country
She cries « The door is here : wide open, come on, go ahead! »

What came over me ?
I left her
I left it all behind me
Anger triumphed
And I wept
Yes, I wept.

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