Афганский синдром [Afganskiy sindrom] [English translation]

To crawl on the sand, to crawl your way

To love one who is waiting

To wake up in the dream from sweaty fear

Remembering only death in the darkness

And not telling anyone

Incomprehensible thoughts, words

Disloyal dreams

And to cherish under the mattress a portrait of wife

Compensating for the lack of moral foundations

Afghan syndrome!

To shoot, to throw, to lose your friends

To shoot, to kill unborn children

To send to their deaths battalions of soldiers

To send to death, then to suffer

To write poems about spring

Remembering those who just yesterday

Has been killed on this war

Has been killed on this incomprehensible war

Syndrome!

Afghan syndrome!

What does it mean to lose a war

It means to be ashamed of awards

It means to return to your country

Where you are shunned, as if you are a thief

What does it mean to lose a war

It means to learn to shoot

It means to come back and live like a coil spring

Gotten used to murder effortlessly

Afghan syndrome!