Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Archipelago, artist - Smokey Bastard.
Date of issue: 12.11.2015
Song language: English
Archipelago |
Our ship rolls in to Nagaev Bay |
Where we’ll toil from the dawn to the last light of the day |
Yeah the life of a Zek is one of decaying |
Slowly as the form falls from your frame |
Kulaks roll in on the endless trains |
Torn from the land that they dared to claim |
Tyres lashed to their feet where their boots gave way |
Their back and barrow doomed to the same fate |
2000 miles of dirt beget the Road of Bones |
Carved in the snow beneath our hacks and hoes |
Checkas and thieves will rob you blind |
So carry only that which fills your mind |
Darkness forms part of every heart |
It’s been within us from the start |
Hold memories close for all else goes |
Fall to the snow on your knees in the wastes of the Archipelago |
All you may own you must carry with you |
To mourn for the things that you’ve lost will destroy you |
Let your soul be enriched by the friends that surround you |
Pray the strength and the will of the good men still holds true |
It alone is the seed that must grow to save us |
In this ravaged land that the stool pigeon gave us |
Father, Father, Heaven save us |
Chatter here and there |
Careless talk is overheard |
And the Black Mariah rolls off like a hearse |
Spies are everywhere in this land |
Where a question brings a curse |
Calls for clemency |
Pleading only makes it worse |
And the charge is none of your concern |
Fall to the snow |
On your knees in the wastes of the archipelago. |
Sharashka spare me from Kolyma |
from the black of the mines and the bite of the taiga |
from the lice and the stick and the heel of the Checka |
Three months or more mark a true survivor |