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The meaning of the lyrics of the song "The correct translation would be "Song about Zhiguli". However, it lacks the nuance that might be present in the Russian phrase. To give you a better translation, I need more context: What kind of song is" (Pesnya pro Jiguli) the performer of the song "Vladimir Vysotsky"

An inexplicable cataclysm has occurred:

I was walking home on my quiet street –

Behold, capitalism brazenly drives towards me,

Its beastly face hidden under the mask of a "Zhiguli"!

I won't go through underpasses:

The screech of brakes is like a romance about three rubles to me, –

Did I suffer and freeze in the seventeenth year

So that a private owner could show off in a "Zhiguli"!

He is not my friend or relative,

He is my sworn enemy, –

The bespectacled private owner

In a green, gray, white "Zhiguli"!

But never mind, I have returned to my old tactics:

I went underground – let them scold me for being absent!

Tonight I punctured three tires, –

I felt so much better – I slept soundly!

To break down the door – I bought a jackhammer,

An electric drill, – just try to drill through the roof!

I will not let our Soviet town be disgraced,

Where they brew the golden "Zhiguli" beer!

He is not my friend or relative,

He is my sworn enemy, –

The bespectacled private owner

In a green, gray, white "Zhiguli"!

There will be no consequences for my sins:

I have won all the rights in the mental hospital.

And I would put them against the wall one by one

And direct a loaded dump truck at them!

But soon I will make the car mine –

I have all the parts – and they fire me from my job:

I will polish it – and at speed I will smash

It under the windows of the "Metropol" hotel.

No, something has occurred to me – after all, the parts are mine! –

I haven't slept enough, haven't eaten enough, only drank tea...

That's it, I'm going, I'm going to register it with the traffic police!..

Oh, damn! – a "Moskvitch" splashed me, the scoundrel!

He is not my friend or relative,

He is my sworn enemy, –

The bespectacled private owner

In a green, gray, white "Moskvitch"

Песня Автозавистника

Произошел необъяснимый катаклизм:

Я шел домой по тихой улице своей -

Глядь, мне навстречу нагло прет капитализм,

Звериный лик свой скрыв под маской "Жигулей"!

Я по подземным переходам не пойду:

Визг тормозов мне - как романс о трех рублях,-

За то ль я гиб и мерз в семнадцатом году,

Чтоб частный собственник глумился в "Жигулях"!

Он мне не друг и не родственник,

Он мне - заклятый враг,-

Очкастый частный собственник

В зеленых, серых, белых "Жигулях"!

Но ничего, я к старой тактике пришел:

Ушел в подполье - пусть ругают за прогул!

Сегодня ночью я три шины пропорол,-

Так полегчало - без снотворного уснул!

Дверь проломить - купил отбойный молоток,

Электродрель,- попробуй крышу пропили!

Не дам порочить наш совейский городок,

Где пиво варят золотое "Жигули"!

Он мне не друг и не родственник,

Он мне - заклятый враг,-

Очкастый частный собственник

В зеленых, серых, белых "Жигулях"!

Мне за грехи мои не будет ничего:

Я в психбольнице все права завоевал.

И я б их к стенке ставил через одного

И направлял на них груженый самосвал!

Но вскоре я машину сделаю свою -

Все части есть,- а от владения уволь:

Отполирую - и с разгону разобью

Ее под окнами отеля "Метрополь".

Нет, что-то екнуло - ведь части-то свои! -

Недосыпал, недоедал, пил только чай...

Все,- еду, еду регистрировать в ГАИ!..

Ах, черт! - "москвич" меня забрызгал, негодяй!

Он мне не друг и не родственник,

Он мне - заклятый враг,-

Очкастый частный собственник

В зеленых, серых, белых "москвичах"

The song "Song of the Car-Envier" by Vladimir Vysotsky ridicules the absurdity of envy and hypocrisy through the example of attitudes towards private property in Soviet society. The lyrical hero, obsessed with envy for the owners of "Zhiguli" cars, represents a grotesque image of a "fighter for ideals" who hates "private traders" for the very fact of owning a car.

His arguments are ridiculous and contradictory: he recalls the revolution of 1917, as if owning a car negates its achievements, calls the owners of "Zhiguli" "sworn enemies" and threatens them with reprisal. At the same time, the hero sees no problem in becoming the owner of the car himself, and even plans to "polish and smash" it against the Metropol hotel, which looks like an act of senseless vandalism.

The culmination is the moment when the hero, already about to register his car, encounters a "bespectacled private owner" on a "Moskvich". Envy and anger instantly switch to a new object, demonstrating the absurdity and illogicality of the hero's position.

The song ridicules the hypocrisy and double standards of Soviet society, where equality was declared, but in reality, envy and rejection of individual success flourished.

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