Pripyat lyrics

The wind whispers through the vacant hulks

It sails from heights and sweeps the dust

Swings swayed to and froe, squeaking with time

Here the land is tainted by the ambitions of men

Ghosts amid Chernobyl's legacy, an emptied past

Now an urban spectrally silent exclusion zone

A Ferris wheel decays, stilled in the air foreboding

Voiceless and unlaboured yellow cabs like lanterns

Colourful lightless lamps dangle yet soulless

Time fading fast their brilliant aspirations

Fond memories misplaced in a community desolate

School is out but the children they cried then

Never will it be as it was, changes resolute

Connections lost in the shuffle of evacuation

All that is man gone, this society whisked away

Now only cold and dulling greyed monoliths stand

Homes forsaken left alone and briefly barren

Rust gathers on the rails that came and went

Paint peels and casts to the ground like leaves

Stagnant settled waters of the clock stopped pool

Only nature's progress rallies in the stadium

Green has come back to reclaim the land

A spherical blue sky encompasses lost debris

Here radiation unsensed remains, it permeates all

Only monitors show exposure's unbroken rates

Fateful days when the their worlds changed

When our world became aware, and effected so

There are those living near in hazard's hold

Ages will come and go and this epic will dim

Unmeasurable and unknown, it will not cease

Encapsulated reactions and fission's vault

Entombed through eons wake of lost liability

This eternal monument to grand naïve might

Once driven by progress untempered, untamed

A great menace to reawaken from encapsulation

In the place forgotten and forsaken there

The wind whispers through the vacant hulks

It sails from heights and sweeps the dust

Swings swayed to and froe, squeaking with time

Here the land is tainted by the ambitions of men