Пока горит свеча [Poka gorit svecha] [English translation]

There are days - when you lose your heart,

And there are no words, no music, no will.

In those days I was at odds with myself

I didn't ask for anyone's help.

I wanted to go where my feet would take me

(loose translation alternative: I wanted to go on a road to nowhere)

Lock my house to never find the key,

But I had faith - that everything's not lost,

While the light's not gone, while the candle's still lit...

And nobody could force me to sing.

Silence - the beginning of all beginnings.

But if I could straighten my shoulders with this song,

How hard would it then be to make me silent.

And let there only be so few days left ahead of me today,

It's snowing, and my blood's not warm.

I will go on once again for a hundredth time from the beginning,

While the light's not gone, while the candle's still lit...