С любимыми не расставайтесь [S lyubimymi ne rasstavaytes'] [English translation]

How painful, my dear, how strange

To become one on earth, uniting our branches.

How painful, my dear, how strange

To split in half under a saw.

The wound in my heart won't heal,

It will shed pure tears.

The wound in my heart won't heal,

It will shed flaming tar.

While I'm alive, I'll be with you.

The soul and the blood are inseparable.

While I'm alive, I'll be with you.

Love and death are always together.

You'll carry with you, everywhere,

You'll carry with you, my love,

You'll carry with you everywhere

Your beloved land and dear home.

But what if I can't be delivered

From an incurable pity?

But what if I can't be protected

From the cold and darkness?

We'll meet again after saying farewell.

Don't forget me, my love.

We'll meet again after saying farewell.

We'll both return: you and I.

But what if I disappear

Like the short-lived light of a day's ray?

But what if I disappear

Beyond the starry night, into the milky smoke?

I'll pray for you then

So that you won't forget your earthly path.

I'll pray for you then

So that you'll return unharmed.

Pushed around in a smoke-smelling train car

He became homeless and meek,

Pushed around in a smoke-smelling train car,

He was half-crying, half-sleeping

When on a slippery slope the train

Suddenly bent in a horrendous turn,

When on a slippery slope the train's

Wheels suddenly left the tracks.

An inhuman strength,

Destroying all in one crumpled mess,

An inhuman strength

Threw the earthly from Earth.

And nobody was protected

By the promise of a reunion ahead,

And nobody was protected

By a hand, calling from ahead.

Don't say farewell to those you love!

Don't say farewell to those you love!

Don't say farewell to those you love!

But grow within them completely.

And say farewell forever!

And say farewell forever!

When you leave for just an instant!