The article is devoted to the study... of forms in which selfreflection manifests itself in the songs of Fyodor Chistyakov “Northern Boogie” (1990) and “Northern Blues” (2013). It is revealed that in those works the rock poet creates a bizarre combination of the Northern Russian picture of the world with the world of African-American musical culture. Such non-trivial move makes it possible to compare life in the godsent “South” and in the difficult for survival “North”, where a person’s life is always the overcoming, “daily heroism”: exactly here, in unfavorable conditions, a person enters into an eternal “battle for the right to be” and learns to win. In the first of the songs, these motifs are only outlined, a view of the northern world from the outside and a certain understatement prevails. In the second work, the interpretation of life motives is deepened and expanded due to the concretization of the main human existence’s characteristics in the Russian North, as well as a complex subjective organization involving the fusion of “I”, “you” and “we”. As a result, the picture of the Northern Russian world goes far beyond geographical concepts and acquires metaphysical qualities, spreading all over the Earth as a special cultural code, to which the author sometimes treats quite ironically. The article concludes that it is possible to consider the author’s return after some time (necessary for comprehensive thinking or point of view’s change) to certain original motives and images a form of self-reflection. Such a “return move” opens to the lyrical subject the perspective of self-irony, the productivity of which is realized in creating a special mood of paraparody, providing the ability to survive and be alive in the harshest realities of life