Синее море [Sinee more] [English translation]

Into good people and bad

We divided everyone by kids' species

We role-played as dashing pirates

and as brave nomads seamen.

All hardships were forgotten

And get lost in the faraway vastness

And we never believed

There's an end, there's an end

There's an end to the blue sea.

You were the girl-leader among us

A sea demon in a faded frock

You drove your father's longboat

Fearlessly among the stormy waves

You'd through your schoolbag away

And would sit up high on the fence

Shout while looking through the binoculars:

There's no end, there's no end

There's no end to the blue sea.

But one day a steamship came

For you, unwanted, unexpected.

And some Sinbad the seaman

Suddenly took you away to faraway lands.

As a farewell, you were your usual self

Shouting: "See you soon

Because for us the blue sea never

ends, never ends, never ends."

We vowed to forget you

We didn't forgive your betrayal

But the heights were uneasily disturbed

By the siren of foreign ship.

And afterwards came a letter,

Like a fully uncovered sorrow,

There was only one revelation there:

"Here it's the end, here it's the end

Here it's the end of the blue sea."

"Here it's the end, here it's the end

Here it's the end of the blue sea."

• Artist:Tatiana Bulanova