Turn Back the Clock

Songs to the poetry of Larisa Rubальская are sung by Alla Pugachёva and Philipp Kirkorov, Irina Allegrova and Valeriy Leontiev, Aleksandr Malinin, “Na-na”—and really, who hasn’t sung them! Probably because Larisa Rubalskaya writes everything seriously, with all her strength of soul, with all her heart.

Larisa Rubalskaya’s poems have a happy fate. Everyone knows them—even those who don’t suspect that these are her poems: they’ve simply heard songs to her words performed by Alla Pugachёva and Philipp Kirkorov, Irina Allegrova and Valeriy Leontiev, Aleksandr Malinin and Arkady Ukupnik.

And those who were lucky enough to attend Larisa Rubalskaya’s creative evenings know that her poems can be not only sung, but also read—and you get no less pleasure from it.

The book you’re holding is built like a special creative evening by Larisa Rubalskaya. At this evening, only for the readers of our book, the very best and most beloved poems that you know so well will be heard. In the pauses between them, the author will answer all the questions that people usually ask from the audience at such evenings. She’ll answer with utmost candor, leaving nothing hidden, not lecturing anyone—but doing so wisely, cheerfully, with love and respect for all the bright, harmonious, natural beginnings of life—just as she writes her poems.

TURN THE CLOCK BACK…

Turn the clock back,

By five minutes, by a day, by a year.

Turn the clock back,

Let this year pass again.

In January, the day will put the garden to sleep,

Draw palm trees in the window.

Turn the clock back

And come back to me again.

But the hands, but the hands,

Call or don’t call,

But the hands, but the hands

Run around the circle.

We forgot something in the past love,

And it will never, never come back.

Turn the clock back,

To the time of all our hurts and quarrels,

Turn the clock back,

To our last conversation.

On the dial, at random,

The hands will freeze in the old days.

Turn the clock back

And love me again.