Throughout the Earth II (In the Darkness)
At night, lights blinked, and cars moved (in the gloom, in the gloom)
And the diesel hooters screamed like crows
(all over the earth)
And the light in the carriage was wretched, and weak and yellow, and pale (flickered through the smoke, seemed like a dream)
And I just could not understand where we are going (where we fly, why we live)
And the question was painful, and there was no solution (in the night, in the snow),
And only the measured knock of wheels designated movement (through a blizzard).
So, we were moving into darkness, not knowing what we would pay for (for this run, for this snow),
And the whole carriage could not understand in any way where we were going (not for a moment, not for a century).
It seemed to us that this path pulls us to death (in the night, in a dream),
And that the goal to reach us the strength does not get, (you and me).
And at the hour when the night zenith for the sun swings open (and light flashes on the whole earth),
An unexpected raven will scream, and our life will be interrupted (like a bird’s footprint, in the gloom, in the gloom).
And our painful question will be forgotten forever (for sure).
And only the measured knock of wheels will last forever, (through centuries),
It will scatter at full speed, it will lie on a new shore (but it will not die, it will not sound),
Under a new sky, he will begin to live, and he will tell everything about us (and he will not lie, and will not be silent).
About our painful fuss of titans and pygmies
(in the gloom, in the gloom),
About the eternal squabble and massacre of tyrants and plebs
(all over the earth)
About our account for rubles of all the joys in the world (he will not be silent, he will shout),
About our slow love, and our quick death ...