S.O.S [English translation]

Bound in snow and frozen over

The transmission mast in ice

Sharp as knives the winds are blowing

Compass spinning round and round

Polar night refuses to end

The whole sense of time is gone

Because time to crystals freezes

Burrying under them this place

With the pack ice drifting slowly

Floats away our one last hope

And our radio operator chants in prayer this one word:

S.O.S! Who's going to save our souls?

S.O.S! Who'll show the way into the light? S.O.S!

Abandoned and forsaken

Is transmission mast in ice

And we press our ears to iron

Quiet, be real quiet now...

Since for whisper we're awaiting

For a sign of life from world

Was that now a quiet crackle?

Or was it just falling snow?

With the pack ice drifting slowly

Floats away our one last hope

And our radio operator chants in prayer this one word:

S.O.S! Who's going to save our souls?

S.O.S! Who'll show the way into the light? S.O.S!

Our lips are blue and chapped

Freezing firmly to cold steel

Under northern lights we suffer

Until very first sunbeam

With the pack ice drifting slowly

Floats away our one last hope

And our radio operator chants in prayer this one word:

S.O.S! Who's going to save our souls?

S.O.S! Who'll show the way into the light? S.O.S!

Is there anybody to break the silence?

• Artist:Subway to Sally
• Album:Nord Nord Ost