Ultimate

I spent this weekend hanging with three of my best Goathouse friends, Brien, John, and Sam. We spent the weekend partying it up, with the main event being a Gogol Bordello concert at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS. This adventure has really revived my spirit and enthusiasm for living life to the fullest. I've been working out this week and jamming through work with Gogol tunes in my head.

I'm going to try my best to post one set of lyric interpretations every day for the next while because no one should go without a little Gogol in their lives.

"Ultimate" is a song about living out your days to their fullest without regret of or despair from what's past. It's a song about taking everything you can from life. (Hence my inspiration for this post.) I wasn't able to find a translation for the Russian/Romani part. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ULTIMATE

If we are here not to do
What you and I wanna do
And go forever crazy with it
Why the hell we are even here?

There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow

When we stand here in a row
Looking like a bunch of heroes
I know that-a deep inside
Nothing more than bunch of zeroes

O skolko utechki tepla
Vot takaja vot sudba
Nam segodnja suzhdena
A bit mozhet chto kogda da-j povezet!

There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow

Stepping on the trail of ultimate
I would never choose to die
Give me rest of all the secrets
Give me new culture of life

Ultimate!
Ultimate!
Ultimate!
Ultimate!