A silent night, a city sleeps
Adrift in breeze of spring
Through open windows darkness seeps
As dream turns into nightmare

Electric air fills foaming streets
Where children chase malignant winds
A graphite storm infects the sky
Where cities stand forever

Iodine fix for rotting cells
Throats burning sore, as thyroids swell
Betrayed by glasnost’s deadly lies
A city gone forever

Wave goodbye to this world
Of placid, blind existence

And we bid them fond farewell
At the burning grounds
Dream or nightmare – time won’t tell
These are the tides of a new forever

The nightingales no longer sing
Above abandoned lands
Gray silent tomb of man’s mistake
Alone in mourning stands

Wave goodbye to this world
Of placid, blind existence
Don’t want to suffer
Waiting for these broken days

And we bid them fond farewell
At the burning grounds
Dream or nightmare – time won’t tell
These are their lives – broken and never reborn