5 - Live together (6 mn 45) Act II Scene 1

I’ve been in Petrograd for more than a year
There I’m working in an armament factory
Time has done its work and I miss Anna
If only we could live again together ?
As before, together, once again, you and me.

Summer 1916, late afternoon 1916 ça se dit : nineteen sixteen ?
At last I’m in my village of Kotowski
With a lump in my throat, I push the door of her isba
But the house is empty, nobody’s waiting for me.

Will we love each other as before ?
Will she just accept me as before ?

I run to her parents’, they have a letter for me
Anna explains she still loves me as in the past
But the time is wrong to start a family
Uprising is brewing, the monarchy’s shaken.

She wants to take part in the fight right now
And she can no more stay passive in Kotowski
She’s gone to Petrograd for the revolution
Our love must wait for the end of the insurrection.

Will we love each other as before ?
Will she just accept me as before ?
Together, as before, together, once again, you and me.

I lost patience once more.
Her letter, I tore.
I volunteered in the army
And ended up at the front
I simply wanted it all over
I saw no more future for me
I don’t understand Anna and she doesn’t understand me
I don’t understand Anna and she doesn’t understand me

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