Save Our Souls

Going underwater

In neutral waters.

We can by the year

To hell with the weather

And if they will cover

The radars will howl over

Our travail.

Save our souls!

We rave from suffocation,

Save our souls,

Hurry to us!

Hear us on dry land -

Our SOS is getting quieter,

And horror cuts the souls

Right into half!

Aortas are tearing,

But cannot come up!

There left on the board,

There right on the board,

There straight ahead,

Horned death

Stands straight in the path!

We're willingly here -

This is our world!

Have we lost our minds, to

Sail in the minefield?

No hysterics here

Into shore we'll steer -

The captain thus said.

We sail in the sunrise -

Order must be kept.

To die in the sunrise -

Better in sunlight!

Our way is not marked

We've nothing... we've nothing

But remember us!

But now we've reached surface,

But there's no escape!

Full way to the shipyard,

The nerves are pulled tightly.

End to all fears

To ends and beginnings -

Instead of torpedos

We're tearing toward ports!

By Vladimir Vysotsky

Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat

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