ya prosnulsya srazu
stuki na moi dver'
pot na lbu blestel pod lunnym svetom
s ulitsy razdalsya
grokhot chernykh marus'
dali pyat' minut odevat'sya i vse
I woke up at once
knocking on my door
sweat gleamed on my forehead by the moonlight
from the street below
came the rumbling of Black Marys
they gave me five minutes
to dress up
no more
Stalingrad
sil'naya strana
staraya mechta
kazhdyi vrag
noch'yu nam ne spat
no strannaya toska
Stalingrad, a powerful state, an old dream
everyone's an enemy, no sleep at nights
yet a strange longing
syn smotrel tak tikho
znal, chto on sdelal
ya poproshchalsya s zhenoi i molcha poshel
spuskayas', ya podumal
kak ya syna lyublyu
a bol'she menya, syn lyubil stranu
my son looked me so quietly
he knew what he had done
I said goodbye to my wife
and left without words
going down it struck me
how I loved my son
but more than me
my son loved the land
stuki na moi dver'
pot na lbu blestel pod lunnym svetom
s ulitsy razdalsya
grokhot chernykh marus'
dali pyat' minut odevat'sya i vse
I woke up at once
knocking on my door
sweat gleamed on my forehead by the moonlight
from the street below
came the rumbling of Black Marys
they gave me five minutes
to dress up
no more
Stalingrad
sil'naya strana
staraya mechta
kazhdyi vrag
noch'yu nam ne spat
no strannaya toska
Stalingrad, a powerful state, an old dream
everyone's an enemy, no sleep at nights
yet a strange longing
syn smotrel tak tikho
znal, chto on sdelal
ya poproshchalsya s zhenoi i molcha poshel
spuskayas', ya podumal
kak ya syna lyublyu
a bol'she menya, syn lyubil stranu
my son looked me so quietly
he knew what he had done
I said goodbye to my wife
and left without words
going down it struck me
how I loved my son
but more than me
my son loved the land