Жить вопреки! [Zhit' vopreki!] [English translation]

To run again on the razor blade

Like an exhausted animal, not counting losses

And risking myself again

It may be better to lie in the cowed shade

In the hot wood far from passion

Where silence and eternal peace reign

Let the northern wind prophesy misfortune for me

I'll go through it, but I won't be changed

Wind, beat harder, blow fire into my blood!

Rebellious spirit, recalcitrant, let me know what's ahead!

So I can live in defiance of it!

Here is false pain, there is false joy

The soul better not accept evil under a mask, although reason is ready to accept it

Fate made me rise and fall, and I know now:

The captivity of loneliness is better than the righteous lies of a new day

Let the northern wind prophesy misfortune for me

I'll go through it, but I won't be changed

Wind, beat harder, blow fire into my blood!

Rebellious spirit, recalcitrant, let me know what's ahead!

The dawn breathes blood, but the play is not over

Time steals all my steps, keeping its own silence

To be or not to be? Until the end no one knows

But I alone know: no one

Can make me a trained dog

Let the northern wind prophesy misfortune for me

I'll go through it, but I won't be changed

Wind, beat harder, blow fire into my blood!

Rebellious spirit, recalcitrant, let me know what's ahead!

So I can live in defiance of it!

Live in defiance!

Live in defiance!