Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness — furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer.
Original in Russian:
До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья. Милый мой, ты у меня в груди. Предназначенное расставанье Обещает встречу впереди.
До свиданья, друг мой, без руки, без слова, Не грусти и не печаль бровей,- В этой жизни умирать не ново, Но и жить, конечно, не новей.
Notes
Written in his own blood, and given to a friend the day before he hanged himself, or so it is assumed.
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From guest Bev (contact)
This was accually his suicide note, written in his own blood. That is where the Bring Me The Horizon song name came from. -
Last two lines
From guest Isabel Binvignat (contact)
Can anyone guarantee that when he wrote those two lines he meant that he was going to kill himself? To me, he´s saying that he cannot endure living with the great alcohol problem because he knows that the actual wife can´t help him and he tended to be depressed. I think that he also means that he has seen so many people, specially men die in his beloved Russia that its mysticism has gone and that life is controlled by the government, even when you think that it´s not. Very strange times indeed. -
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From guest Zareah (contact)
He commited suicide because he didnt like the way he was living, drinking becoming sick, he would rather die and live in peace then have his family and wife watch him suffer. Hes pretty much saying that he will see her again in heaven or whatever he belives in. At least he left a note. I know what its like to loose someone dear to you eccept my Dada didnt leave anything but all the drugs he was in I understood why he did it because he couldnt change and he didnt want to live the rest of his life in agony. -
Greatness :)
From guest Zareah (contact)
When its translated, It doesnt make sense, so they pretty much just fixed it so its understandable. I know how to speak and read russian because i am russain and its pretty much the same thing as the example. Just some words are different but when its translated it doesnt make sense. Its kinda like how some people say tamato different.
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Died so young... :(
From guest Luna (contact)
He died really young :\ I love this poem, even though its sad because its a goodbye of his last breath... I heard about this man on the song It Was Written in Blood by BMTH <3 I really love that song. RIP Sergei... -
It's sad but awesome
From guest Robert (contact)
One of the best I've ever read I liked it anyway... To me he's an inspiration... Though not by dying, but by what he wrote, and this poem is definitely my favorite. I also love the song by BMTH -
I love this so much
From guest Amber (contact)
i seen bmth in the taste of chaos tour also, hehe, but i am looking for the entire, FULL,original poem, unless that is it.... please someone tell me where to find it if they do, thank you -
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Although this is only a translation of the original which was in Russian, I believe it to represent the whole poem. The original Russian version and a different translation may be found here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esenin
Jim
Oldpoetry Research Team
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From guest Jesse (contact)
Ok, considering I bought the CD, and it has the lyrics written in there, I should know. It really is the poem Sergei wrote above with the line "It was written in blood" added to it. Sorry if I came across as rude. -
This is amazing...
From guest Vera (contact)
This is really good. Using it for my school project. Love BMTH, saw them live on 3/18/09 Taste of Chaos.
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Good
From guest GoodbyeFAN (contact)
Deep, good, I like I like pretty nice poem. Goodbye my friends!
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The lyrics to the "bring me the horizon" version
From guest daniel (contact)
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye my love you are in my heart it was preordained that we should part and be re-united by and by, reunited by and bye, goodbye! no handshake to endure
there is no sadness to endure, furrowed brow
there is nothing new in dying now, it was written
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Oh!
Oh this is very sad poem. Loving someone is good but dying for some one is simply causing pain to the one he loves.the poetry is good but the act is not to be appriciated. -
This Poem
From guest Floyd (contact)
The words from this poem are in a song by a band called "bring me the horizon", the song is entitled "it was written in blood." -
I Said in my Heart
From guest Rebecca Lara (contact)
This Poem Just Touched me
But Witch it already has
well yeah you did a very Good Job -
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looking for song?
From guest mohamed (contact)
please iam looking for song its so sad song i heart it when i were in bus so sad song its says( good bye my friend good bye my love) is amen who sing it please help who is the singer. this song its from heart. -
I prefer the translation below, but as written it is is a solid piece. Still, the idea of writing in one's own blood should have made the translator more careful to be exacting with it. Also, the date of writing...2004, is that the translated piece?
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The given date was actually the date the poem was added to the site. A glitch in the early programming but now corrected (on most poems)
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i like it
i think its ez to read and any one who has lost some one,could come prity close to relate to what is writen
in the poem
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