Jacek Kaczmarski - Sen Katarzyny II

I keep the philosophers of Europe on a leash
I propped up Peter's marble ceilings with an army
I've got dogs, falcons, horses - I do adore the hunt
And all around me there's only deer and hares
I raise up palaces and cut off heads
Whenever I feel like it
I've got biographers and portrait painters
And there's just one more thing I want

"Stop, Catherine!
A dream such as this can take the crown of tsars right off your head!"

I am a woman ahead of my own time
I do not care for the embrace of pale paramours
The touch of their soft fingers disgusts me
I'd rather hunt those deer and hares
Ashamed, some of them later called me
An insatiable German slut
And I had them whippen naked
Through the snow all around the Kremlin!

"Stop, Catherine!
A dream such as this can take the crown of tsars right off your head!"

I need a lover who is like my Empire
Who would take me as I give - take all of me
Who could be both my master and my subject
Who could replace those deer and hares for me
Who could understand, as I understand it
This stupid court of predefined roles
And who, among these bowed heads
Could give me pleasure or pain!

"Stop, Catherine!
A dream such as this can take the crown of tsars right off your head!
If you ever found a lover like this..."
"I know! I know well! I'd have him executed!"