Звезда По Имени Солнце [Zvezda po imyeni Solntse] [English translation]

There's white snow, grey ice

on the cracked ground.

Like a patchwork blanket on it

there's a city in a road circuit.

And there are clouds floating over the city

blocking the heavenly light.

And there's yellow smoke over the city,

the city is two thousand years old,

the years having been lived beneath the light of the star

the name of which is Sun.

And for two thousand years there's been a war,

the war for no particular reasons.

A war is the matter of the young,

an anti-wrinkle medicine.

There's red - red blood,

in an hour it is just the ground,

in two ones it is covered with flowers and grass,

in three ones it's alive again

and is warmed by the rays of the star

the name of which is Sun.

And we know it's always been this way,

that much more loved by the destiny is the one

who lives by the other laws

and who is destined to die being young.

He doesn't remember the word "yes" and the word "no",

he does remember neither ranks nor names,

and he's able to reach the stars

never considering it a dream,

and to fall down being burned by the star the name of which is Sun.