Do you see the blinding column of light Beating into the April sky over Pripyat? Soon the ashes will fall like birds on the asphalt Red-skinned May Day, wild x-rays Blisters and nausea, evacuation Liquidators, dosimetrists, police An unprecedented illumination in the kitchen window Man-made Vesuvius spitting particles into the night In maternity wards, they search for small Taurus Accumulating invisible calves of contagious pollen Fathers hastened somewhere urgently And return by ambulance Not long ago, he was happy and alive But vulnerabilities distort proportions Tissues affected, someone's wife's sobbing Echoing through the corridors The city empties, instruments crack Through tons of soil and sand, neutrons fly Neurons malfunction The layers of bodies shed Civil defense troops battle with graphite damage And widows wait for ghosts at home Someone here will burn completely in the process Others will be caught later by cesium-137 A cloud crawls over human hives Incorrect bees bring improper iodine to the city Do you see the blinding column of light Beating into the April sky over Pripyat? Soon the ashes will fall like birds on the asphalt Red-skinned May Day, wild x-rays Blisters and nausea, evacuation Liquidators, dosimetrists, police An unprecedented illumination in the kitchen window Man-made Vesuvius spitting particles into the night We have plenty of energy here: thank you, peaceful atom We'll head to yours on Easter, to mine on the Ninth This weekend - potatoes, on the First - to the forest Our plans will hardly be enough for a whole era Our plans need a whole train of strength and health Let's run to the bridge - they say you can see the fire from there Down the dirty tributary to the beautiful afar The gifts of the fourth power unit begin their journey Everything is fine, overall, with the radiation background They're about to open a new amusement park soon! Fire by fire, but there's a more sophisticated drama Who will win - Moscow's Spartak or Kiev's Dynamo? Mothers creak with strollers, needles spin slowly There's no need to rush - there's another thirty years ahead Plutonium in the Zone will turn into americium Time will scatter eyewitnesses to oncology centers Do you see the blinding column of light Beating into the April sky over Pripyat? Soon the ashes will fall like birds on the asphalt Red-skinned May Day, wild x-rays Blisters and nausea, evacuation Liquidators, dosimetrists, police An unprecedented illumination in the kitchen window Man-made Vesuvius spitting particles into the night In maternity wards, they search for small Taurus Accumulating invisible calves of contagious pollen Fathers hastened somewhere urgently And return by ambulance Not long ago, he was happy and alive But vulnerabilities distort proportions Someone's wife's sobbing Echoes through the corridors