Невесёлая песня [Neveselaja pesnja] [English translation]

Our rivers lack water and might,

Our windows don't let daylight in,

Our morning seems like the night,

Well, the night is for me.

Looking in liquid mirror of pools,

At the clock that did not tick for years,

At the flag kissed to tatters by fools,

Half a kingdom I'd give for a horse.

Play on, this unhappy and dull song of mine.

Play on... Play on...

Sad commanders of Army of Moons

We kept losing fight day after day,

And when we tried to start up a fire,

Our fire was put out by rain.

We recline by the dry broken troughs

And divine on the wind rose in vain,

And when time comes for us all to rise,

We still sit, we wait.

Play on, this unhappy and dull song of mine.

Play on... Play on...