Against Bridge Burners Lyrics

So much terror I have seen,
Fought endless years for their revenge
Now I know this struggle ended nowhere
I am remembering with shame
I feel my time has come
I feel my time has come to fight
to fight for understanding
I'm not defeated, I am not beaten

Thrown into the darkest dungeon,
I pay for my forgiving thoughts
I pay for my forgiving thoughts
They may preach about the same convictions,
But they will distort these high ideals

No ferocity will unsettle my beliefs
I am not taken by the enemy
Mechanisms of stagnation
As agitators rule the land
They want to make us live in fear
Yet all they get are unshed tears
They want to make us live in fear
Locked up in gloom for years

Try to silence my voice but I am not beaten!

No brutality will unsettle my beliefs
I am not taken by their felony
Mechanisms of stagnation
As agitators rule the land
And a thousand miles away, away from home,
I meet my expelled brothers
Captured in a secret prison, isolation, regression, indignity for years

No atrocity will unsettle my beliefs
I am not taken by this agony
Mechanisms of stagnation
As agitators rule the land

They want to make us live in fear
Yet all they get are unshed tears
They want to make us live in fear
I am not defeated!

- Dedicated to the life and work of Lev Kopelev