Берег [Bereg] [English translation]

Ships are rushing towards the shore

Trains are running towards the shore

But all the deadbolts are locked

Water is rising against the shore

The shore is a slow bird

The shore is a captive ocean

The shore is a heart of stone

The shore is someone's prison

And when the wave flows over the shore

And stops just for a moment

The war will have already happened on Earth

The war of which we will learn from the books

The golden gates will clang

Someone's voice will tell you to fly

A note on the toilet's doors:

'If you drop by Earth, come around'

A little star will twinkle at your doorstep

Try to guess its age

If you go out on an empty road

The gun will click behind your back

Someone put a hallmark on me

If only I knew who it was

Anger is a sparrow's word

It's mounting up in my coat's pockets

And when the water recedes

The shore will come out and reveal the hero

The shore will come out and reveal the enemy

As before there will be the two of them

Whisky with sugar and sour cabbage

Cold ice on the temples

It's chilly and empty inside my head

Tell me where you are and how you are

My stomach rises, but it's the wrong time

It's time to polish shoes

Bone like a white stirrup

A colour of someone's child foot

The shore will greet the hero

The shore will greet the enemy

There has always been the two of us

And now there's only me.

• Artist:Vyacheslav Butusov
• Album:Овалы (1998)