The meaning of the lyrics of the song "Prompter" (Suflyor) the performer of the song "The King and the Jester"

The audience can be harsh on art!

Better memorize your own monologues,

Don't blindly trust someone else's cues,

They might just laugh you off the stage.

If your performance relies on a prompter,

You might end up misspeaking involuntarily,

And then the audience would boo you off,

And that prompter would become your downfall.

The drunken prompter's antics

Must be stopped immediately!

He has shamelessly humiliated the actor,

Whispering different lines.

He decided to make

Donkeys out of people.

Hamlet never said such words!

Throw the liar out!

He's a hooligan and a scoundrel!

Either stupid or sly,

The actor is a schemer!

He lies to people without blinking an eye.

What he delivers from the stage –

Is just a joke!

He delivers a false monologue,

Taking on too much!

Who, tell me, will shut him up?!

A sudden burst of wild laughter

Came from under the stage, from a wicked fool.

He was amused that the audience

Was also shamelessly laughing at the great actor.

The actor was enraged: "Friends,

This is unacceptable!

The false plot is a disgrace!

Don't blame me,

It wasn't my idea!"

Either stupid or sly,

The actor is a schemer!

He lies to people without blinking an eye.

What he delivers from the stage –

Is just a joke!

He delivers a false monologue,

Taking on too much!

Who, tell me, will shut him up?!

Later, the terrible truth became known –

The actor got tired of the prompter

And sent him to...

К искусству зрители порой бывают строги!

Уж лучше Вам свои запомнить монологи,

Подсказкам чьим-то слепо доверять

Не стоит, Вас ведь могут засмеять.Коль держится Ваш образ на суфлёре,

То как бы не завраться поневоле,

И как бы Вас в итоге зал не освистал,

И как бы Вами тот суфлёр в конце не стал.

Выходки пьяного суфлёра

Надо немедленно пресечь!

Подло унизил он актёра,

Иную нашёптывая речь.

Он из людей решил

Сделать ослов.

В Гамлете нет таких слов!

В шею гоните лгуна!

Он хулиганьё и шпана.

То ли глуп, то ли хитёр,

Интриган - актёр!

Людям врёт, и глазом не моргнёт.

Что со сцены он несёт -

Просто анекдот!

Монолог он ложный выдаёт,

Много на себя берёт!

Кто, скажите, рот ему заткнёт?!

Хохотом разразился диким

Вдруг из-под сцены злобный шут.

Тешился тем, что над великим

Зрители тоже нагло ржут.

Злился актёр: «Друзья,

Так же нельзя!

Ложный сюжет - размазня!

Вы не вините меня,

Это придумал не я!»

То ли глуп, то ли хитёр

Интриган - актёр!

Людям врёт и глазом не моргнёт.

Что со сцены он несёт -

Просто анекдот!

Монолог он ложный выдаёт,

Много на себя берёт!

Кто, скажите, рот ему заткнёт?!

Стала людям известна потом

Ужасная правда о том -

Актёр от суфлёра устал

И в будку скотине на...!

The song "The Prompter" by the band "Korol i Shut" ridicules an actor's dependence on someone else's cues and inability to handle the role independently.

The lyrics are filled with irony and sarcasm. The author criticizes the hypocrisy and falsehood in the theatrical environment, where an actor unable to memorize the text passes off someone else's words as his own, risking becoming a laughingstock.

The image of the prompter is twofold: on the one hand, he is an assistant, on the other - a source of deception, pushing the actor to failure. The drunk prompter, whispering incorrect lines, symbolizes the base instincts that destroy art.

The culmination is the actor's rebellion, who realized that he had become a puppet in the wrong hands. He tries to justify himself to the public by shifting the blame onto the prompter, but the ending of the song remains open, leaving the listener to reflect on the price of success and the consequences of deception in art.