Список кораблей [Spisok korabley] [English translation]

Call for December, seek a winter,

Seek a road, wipe the salt off your palms.

The longboat is obedient, but it's not we who steer it,

On the first ship your ache burns scarlet bright.

I read the catalogue of ships many a time,

To shipyards and to ports I was drawn time and again,

Since all my love is molten metal,

Frozen in salt water, like glass.

Call for the one who waited, seek through the fog,

With wave and sword, for truth and goods,

While you still have the strength to call and to discern a voice.

On the second ship the silver turns black.

Lead me through limbo and horizon, my faithful sextant,

Keep straight amidst the rusting hulls.

Frigates, clippers, treasure and steel -

Lie on the sea floor, lie on the floor of stars.

Sail, my frigate, across the Milky Way,

Above storm, above water, open to the whole world,

Unfold your sails in winds, like curls...

Your doom is she who waits on the third ship.

Indeed, the doom is she who waits on the third ship.

Indeed, the doomed is she who waits on the third ship.