Пробуждение [Probuzhdeniye] [English translation]

In the faraway clouds of steel

There’s a trace of a cold glow.

The long night is ending,

That one, in which we were born.

The centuries’ childhood is ending,

The road back is farther and farther away,

[The road] to the abandoned Garden of Eden

That no one needs now.

And this awakening

Still scares one’s heart,

But, now, there’s nothing to change,

The thread of time cannot be revisited.

Echo of the bygone epoch

Is melting in the heavy air.

We’ll never be back there,

The Lost Son will never return to his Father…

***

In yet timid light beams,

It’s already hard to recognize

Everything that has seemed so ordinary

Just a minute ago.

Meanwhile, the shards are burning

In rockets’ blue fire,

[The shards] of all the things which have been the cause and meaning of everything

For two thousand years.

Our world turned out to be much more complicated

Than our childhood fairytales spoke about it,

And now, we can see ourselves in the mirror

The way we are, in our true colours.

And one wants to lock all the windows,

To leave, to escape into the shadows,

And to keep their childhood values,

As if everything was always the same.

***

But now there’s day on the Earth,

And the mystic fear is in the past,

And, with the help of nuclear bombs,

The hell has been turned into ashes.

But the world turned out to be much more wise

Than hundreds of yesterday’s ideas,

And, once we’ve seen the Earth in the window,

We’ve become comparable to it.

And this awakening

Makes us rethink everything,

That’s a pity, though, that

There, the past will tell us nothing about the future.

Echo of the bygone epoch

Is melting in the fresh air.

We’ll never be back there,

Never from now on, never ever, ever!..

***

In the faraway clouds of steel

There’s a trace of frightening eternity.

It is in every Earth’s grain

And in the light of faraway comets.

But, today, these cold heights

Feel somewhat warmer.

We’ve grown up now,

We’ve become comparable to them…

• Artist:Complex Numbers
• Album:Утро Нового Тысячелетия [The Morning of the New Millenium]