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 |