1. GIDROLOKATOR (DEPTH FINDER)

(Instrumental)


2. ROZHDESTVO V MURMANSKE (CHRISTMAS IN MURMANSK)

Hell...hell...hell...hell...

We all fall down and not everyone gets up
A wasted day brings us an endless night
His crucifixion repeats itself in my dreams
Nevertheless I sleep - and suffer with Him at night

Holy blood flows onto my perverted thoughts
My temple of flesh crumbles under the sin
This dream rips my blackened heart apart
And while awake the unclean spirit follows me all day

My body is crushed
Crush the body
Crush it - and that's it


3. PREDATEL (TRAITOR)

Oh you, look here
What's becoming of me with you
My eyes are empty
And you're the serpent in paradise

...The third day will come to the holy one -
I shall live again
And you won't find me in this tomb
It is written: I was fated for suffering
But years shall fly by
...The third day will come to the holy one

Yet you are my traitor
Forever a traitor
Yes, you are my traitor
You're a traitor

I foresaw it all - my downfall
But I didn't do anything
Oh, my traitor, I don't fear you
For you are my beloved enemy


4. 1917

All my brothers have disappeared
The streets are empty, the streetlights out
No reasons in sight, nor heard
Suddenly my life just has no meaning, no goal

Escaping to America
To start a new life there
After leaving my motherland
I am an outcast everywher - an alien

No one knows what is happening
With the country or with me...
Oh, what are we getting into?
And after some years who will remember
Who was right and who betrayed?
And besides, I won't be around...

(Based on a true story)


5. CHERNAYA DYRA (THE BLACK HOLE)

There is nothing but infertility here
Even dreams are of nothingness
And the rays of the sun and the moon
Cannot save me from death
It seems everyone is ruined
Their sins covered in excuses
And without hope we live
Continuing numbly towards the bottom

- The road into me is like the road to the Mirny mine
A spiralling descent into nothingness
I'm a life completely crushed, an apparition
A black hole breathing involuntarily

- I shatter all mirrors around me
I cannot even bare [sic] my own stench
I fear nothing like I fear myself
And I curse this monstrosity I've become

Broken, immobile
Cursed, yet still alive

- Each indifferent day I drink by the bottle
Just to be able to live with myself
To survive the day and survive the night
All the way to the next dark dawn that I never wanted

Broken, immobile
Cursed, yet still alive

Oh, poor me...
Oh, poor me...


6. STALINGRAD

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, a powerful state, an old dream
Everyone's an enemy, no sleep at nights
Yet a strange longing

My son looked at 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


7. NE PROSTI (DO NOT FORGIVE)

A new century, the same old world
We remained unchanged as always,
As we were before
Here I live and see it all
As if I would enjoy it
Everyday, to this day, I sin

Frozen blood and no love
A multitude of doubts
A new age awaits us
I'm not holy, I'm the other
I'm not with you, nor against
Why won't you release me?

...I didn't ask to see you...
...I didn't ask for anyone to save me...

Do not forgive me, Lord - I do not believe
I have deserved my lot
Do not forgive me, Lord - I do not believe
And I am not asking for forgiveness

A new century, the same old world
We remain unchanged as always,
As we were before
I am there, it's Doomsday
And old aquaintances
They all adore only evil

Frozen blood and no love
A multitude of suffering
A dark age awaits us
I'm not holy, I'm the other
I'm not with you, nor against
Why did you banish me?

...I didn't choose you...
...I didn't choose anyone...


8. OCHEREDNYE (THE USUAL)

It's all repeated again
A war for mistakes covered in grief
A gloomy night has arrived
And the world sinks into black slime

We cannot save anyone
Just choose a short epigraph
Then take a peek into the future:
Mushroom-dreams roaming wildly

This time of ours always astounds me
We don't see the end, but run straight to it

That lowly idiot is hiding
Laughing in secret, from afar
And so he has sold our fate
There's no more youth, only timeless scars


9. ODIN DEN IZ ZHIZNI YEGORA KUZNETSOVA

The chieftains are dreaming dreams too sweet
But I see what exists
They don't understand not a single thought
Although I gave them all the answers
We look at each other in the eye
But he keeps lying
With blindness even he can excel
And with power he self-justifies

I do not know for how long I am able to hold on
And I do not understand that I'm still alive after all

In my car there's just the bottle and me
And in my pocket the mobile [phone] is tinkling
I do not answer, I know who it is
And I hide all my thoughts in the mist
Soon she is dreaming dreams too sweet
But I see what exists
She can't understand even the rays of dawn
Yet I find answers within them

- How did I end up here?
Where did I come from?
And where the hell am I going?
Fuck, no, I don't need help
Not until it's too late
Whatever happens, happens
Then at least something happens
I wait, I wait, I wait...

In the day - no
In the night - no


10. DEMON

The woeful demon above the ground
Flew without a sound
Reminiscing ages past
Lightly, now and then, from his eyes
A tear fell like lava
And the land burned below

He wanted to believe in goodness
He wanted to pray
To make peace and to love
But he wasn't allowed to live
Thus, he decided
To destroy other's [sic] delight

Here I rule and love
In the dark I'm watching you
You see me for the first time:
"I... am the lord of knowledge and freedom
I'm the enemy of the heavens, the natural vice!"

"And you shall become queen of the earth,
My very first fiancé;
Without compassion, without concern
You'll begin to watch the world.
Where there's no genuine glee,
And where beauty is so brief,
Where there are but crimes and castigations
And passions most pathetic,
Where they cannpt fearlessly
Feel neither hatem nor love"

(Quotes were taken off M. Yu. Lermontov's (1814-41) poem "Demon")