In the symphony’s finale, Shostakovich and Yevtushenko pay tribute to those who sacrificed material benefits for truth and beauty, such as Galileo, Shakespeare, Pasteur, and Tolstoy. The poem hails them as the real careerists.
[BASS]
Tverdili pastyri, shto vreden
I nerazumen Galilei
[Chorus]
Shto nerazumen Galilei
[BASS]
No, kak pokazyvayet vremya
[ENSEMBLE]
Kto nerazumnei, tot umnei
[BASS]
Uchonyi, sverstnik Galileya
[ENSEMBLE]
Byl Galileya ne glupeye
[BASS]
On znal, shto vertitsya zemlya
[ENSEMBLE]
No u nevo byla semya
[BASS]
I on, sadyas s zhenoi v karetu
Svershiv predatelstvo svoyo
Schital, shto delayet karyeru
[ENSEMBLE]
A mezhdu tem gubil yeyo
[BASS]
Za osoznaniye planety
Shol Galilei odin na risk
[ENSEMBLE]
I stal velikim on
[BASS]
Vot eto
[ENSEMBLE]
Ya ponimayu - karyerist!
[Chorus]
Itak, da zdravstvuyet karyera
Kogda karyera takova
Kak u Shekspira i Pastera
Nyutona i Tolstovo
I Tolstovo
[BASS]
Lva?
[Chorus]
Lva!
Zachem ikh gryazyu pokryvali?
Talant, talant, kak ni kleimi
[BASS]
Zabyty te, kto proklinali
[Chorus]
No pomnyat tekh, kovo klyali
[BASS]
Vse te, kto rvalis v stratosferu
Vrachi, shto gibli ot kholer
Vot eti delali karyeru!
[ENSEMBLE]
Ya s ikh karyer beru primer
[BASS]
Ya veryu v ikh svyatuyu veru
Ikh vera - muzhestvo moyo
Ya delayu sebe karyeru
Tem, shto ne delayu yeyo!
Karyera was written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko & Дмитрий Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich).
Дмитрий Шостакович (Dmitri Shostakovich) released Karyera on Tue Dec 18 1962.