| Thrown into a driving snowstorm
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| My eyes fill with darkness
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| I spoke against my country
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| And paid the price
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| Before me, foul Kolyma
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| Hungry maw swallows thousands
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| Feed her with the poor, the innocent
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| To work the mines
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| Ride, ride, ride on the road of bones
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| Die, die, die on the road of bones
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| Desolation does surround me
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| Permafrost is my cold bed
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| I’m a zombie of the Gulag
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| Dying slowly and living dead
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| Forty degrees below the redline
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| The purga blizzards howl
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| I curl up in my tent
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| To count my final days
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| Who I was no longer matters
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| I am nothing; |
| I am no one
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| Just a tooth on this grinding gear
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| To break and be cast away
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| Ride, ride, ride on the road of bones
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| Die, die, die on the road of bones
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| Dread Vorkuta, whore of torture
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| Spreads her foul hands across the plain
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| In her clutches, Russia’s children
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| Pray for death to end the pain
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| Discovered in this land of solitude
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| A message scratched into a frozen stone:
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| «We died here, our skin a frozen blue
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| Remember us, the forgotten and alone.»
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| On a day when the sun rose darkly |
| Body broken, spirit fled
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| The wind, it blew so hard
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| My wounds scarcely bled
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| Now I join the countless millions
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| Who in toil have died before me
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| Their bones ground into dust
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| To pave this road to hell
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| Ride, ride, ride on the road of bones
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| Die, die, die on the road of bones |