закаты алые [zakaty alyye] [English translation]

Quiet, warm evenings before the fight

And our dreams are covered with an unsettling silence

Yesterday you were a boy - today you have a new uniform

And a letter from your mother with you

A lonely star burned here all night

And the clear fog lies by the river

Here the birches are white, the grasses are high

The enemy must not go further

Chorus:

And the sunsets are scarlet, scarlet, scarlet

You can't hear the shots before the battle

This is not what you and I dreamed about

Four days before the war

Explosions flashed and the sky collapsed

The sun is hidden by the wall of dark smoke

White birches and tall grasses are asleep

Boys, the war took you all

They defended their homeland in the harsh years

No traces of distant, battle roads

All we can do now is to remember, you and I need to remember

The names of our boys

Chorus x2