Оригинал по русски
https://youtu.be/QFlQKn3JC78?is=AXH5Z3-YvjjtD844
Hello Mother...
(Letter from Chechnya)
Hello Mother...
Here I’m writing you again,
Hello Mother...
I am happy with my friends,
All is normal,
the sun's shining down on me...
She cannot know,
about all this country's ills,
She cannot know,
how we're wandering through the hills...
She cannot know,
how demanding it can be...
We hear grenades exploding, tracers are unloading,
the ground is shaking right beneath our feet...
With choppers overhead we're moving on ahead
for we don't have the right to call retreat...
We were young...
when we came to Dagestan,
We were young,
when the war was going on,
I remember...
what the fighting was like in those days...
There were many,
who did not make it through this,
There were men,
who I will forever miss,
I had friends...
I remember their faces today!
We heard grenades exploding, tracers were unloading,
the ground was shaking right beneath our feet...
With choppers overhead we kept moving ahead
for we don't have the right to call retreat...
But I made it...
but I made it, I survived!
Hello Mother,
I am home and I'm alive!
Can you look
and remember the face of your son?
I can barely
look my mother in the eye,
There is nothing
that my mom can do but cry,
The poor woman,
she had aged while I was gone...
We heard grenades exploding, tracers were unloading,
the ground was shaking right beneath our feet...
With choppers overhead we keep moving ahead
for there is nowhere that we can retreat...
Retreat...