[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:02.10]Leningrad [00:03.38]Billy Joel [00:04.48] [00:22.99]Viktor was born in the spring of '44 [00:29.28]And never saw his father anymore [00:35.82]A child of sacrifice, a child of war [00:42.64]Another son who never had a father after Leningrad [00:48.79] [00:50.39]Went off to school and learned to serve the state [00:56.55]Followed the rules and drank his vodka straight [01:03.60]The only way to live was drown the hate [01:09.79]A Russian life was very sad [01:14.52]And such was life in Leningrad [01:18.47] [01:20.71]I was born in '49 [01:23.88]A cold war kid in McCarthy time [01:27.22]Stop 'em all at the 38th Parallel [01:30.77]Blast those yellow reds to hell [01:34.14]And cold war kids were hard to kill [01:37.63]Under their desks in an air raid drill [01:41.04]Haven't they heard we won the war [01:44.48]What do they keep on fighting for? [01:47.89] [01:50.64]Viktor was sent to some Red Army town [01:57.51]Served out his time, became a circus clown [02:04.63]The greatest happiness he'd ever found [02:10.58]Was making Russian children glad [02:15.40]And children lived in Leningrad [02:19.17] [02:21.41]But children lived in Levittown [02:24.26]And hid in the shelters underground [02:27.71]Until the Soviets turned their ships around [02:31.61]And tore the Cuban missiles down [02:34.54]And in that bright October sun [02:38.05]We knew our childhood days were done [02:41.18]And I watched my friends go off to war [02:44.92]What do they keep on fighting for? [02:47.41] [02:51.00]And so my child and I came to this place [02:56.43]To meet him eye to eye and face to face [03:04.62]He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced [03:10.26]We never knew what friends we had [03:14.62]Until we came to Leningrad