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June 19, 2013 Last Updated: 1:43:PM EDT

Read the Lyrics to Pussy Riot's First Single From Behind Bars, "Putin Lights Up the Fires"

Read the Lyrics to Pussy Riot's First Single From Behind Bars, "Putin Lights Up the Fires"

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Pussy Riot
by Chloe Wyma
Published: August 20, 2012
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Not even a two-year jail sentence will silence the Russian anarcha-punk band Pussy Riot. Mere days after their sentencing, members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich sound off with a new song. “Putin Lights Up the Fires” — with its lyrics defiantly satirizing Vladimir Putin as a misogynistic Plutocrat with botoxed cheeks — is the group’s first release since their pivotal “Virgin Mary, Please Drive Putin Away,” the “punk prayer” that lead to the band’s incarceration and two-year jail sentence for anti-religious hooliganism, touching off protests in Moscow and around the world. Although the single dropped on Friday, the official English translation was made public today. We've got the official English lyrics, below, from our friends at Girlie Action Media:  

This state may be stronger than time in jail.

 

The more arrests, the happier it is.
Every arrest is carried out with love for the sexist

Who botoxed his cheeks and pumped his chest and abs.

But you can't nail us in the coffin. 
Throw off the yoke of former KGB!

Putin is lighting the fires of revolution
He's bored and scared of sharing silence with the people
With every execution: the stench of rotten ash
With every long sentence: a wet dream

The country is going, the country is going into the streets boldly
The country is going, the country is going to bid farewell to the regime
The country is going, the country is going, like a feminist wedge
And Putin is going, Putin is going to say goodbye like a sheep

Arrest the whole city for May 6th
Seven years isn't enough, give us 18!
Forbid us to scream, walk and curse!
Go and marry Father Lukashenko

To listen to "Putin Lights Up the Fires," click on the video below:

 
by Chloe Wyma,Art & Crime, Music, News & Features, Pop, Rock,Art & Crime, Music, News & Features, Pop, Rock
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