Текст песни Владимир Лешмер - Пятнадцать лет назад

I remember the day when in dismay and confusion
When the world blooms in July like a garden of paradise
Having barely graduated from school
I stepped into the factory fifteen years ago

But I was not addressed to production
And in a quiet workshop, where there are more women than men
Where they know chemistry and appreciate floriculture
And I stayed there for many reasons

Since then, days, months, and years have passed.
Who knows how many changes we got
Unpredictable, sometimes like a weather shift
And endless like the wall of china

Salary, I remember, was given out through cash desks
There was a man whom the whole workshop could entrust
We went to meet her three, for the greater mass
To get money out of turn

Then there was a crisis, and the cash was canceled
They gave only housing and travel
And under the salary to take something charged
And extra coupons are not enough

Well, you’ll think, and we’re glad of that
In the morning to the dining room, and then to the store
Then lunch, look right now, and again you have to
To catch the distribution of consumer baskets

What specialists were here before
Science was moved, workshops were put into operation
And their professionalism was so frantic
What are we afraid to argue with them sometimes

But everyone left a long time ago: who himself, and who not so
Well, there were simply no others like that
And young, those who stayed, that there is urine
We had to learn everything ourselves again

But pulled up !!! Belts clamped tighter
And just started to squeamish positive
But with the leadership in the workshop it suddenly got worse
And the wolf howled again the working team

Let our shop not stand out in beauty before
But now what sort of repair
After all, even in those corners where the horse did not lie
A rather small fund was taken for decoration

With needles walls, ceilings, changed doors
On the windows blinds - convenience and comfort
Here are just the pipes that rusted over the years
Not replaced, and now they flow

And so since then periodically removed
Now tiles from the floor, then drywall from the walls
Completely in Russian: they’ll either build or break
And redo again then

There is nothing to count, there were a lot of events
Cancellation of benefits, an important test for engineers
Quality system, training alert
And certification of native jobs

They drove the drinkers, whose whom they cut
Pensioners have not been given prospects
And reorganized broke
Once in the past indivisible team

What comes next - all in conjecture and hope
Who knows, maybe future success awaits us.
But our workshop stands and works as before
And, by the way, this is the same workshop

Let me work for a long time in a new place
But just as five o'clock I rush home
And each time again we come together
At the end of the work at the central entrance

And in the mornings I see how people come
As light lights up in familiar windows
And I even distinguish someone’s faces, like
People I've been with for so many years

I look out the window when the soul involuntarily asks
Looking around the repainted facade
And again, my memories carry away
About fifteen years ago