Прости, Земля! [Prosti, Zemlya] [English translation]

Look! Black smoke is drifting again in the sky above the taiga

Day and night we destroy our Earth with the roar of vehicles

As if we are on some other planet

An explosion has upended the rock

The water has suddenly left the brook

Mother Earth, rocking us in your arms hour by hour

Could you have imagined where you would meet your doom?

Forgive us, Earth!

We still haven't grown up yet

Forgive your children for everything!

Have faith, Earth, that we people can find a way

To save you and save ourselves

We can search for two thousand years

We can fly to the most distant star

But no matter how far we travel

We will never find another Earth anywhere

An Earth covered first with grass, then with snow...

An Earth where dawn lights up half the sky

Every day and hour we are indebted to you

Oh Earth! Forgive your stupid children!

Forgive us, Earth!

We still haven't grown up yet

Forgive your children for everything!

Have faith, Earth, that we people can find a way

To save you and save ourselves