The Fire

I remember the sounds of boots on the floor

Then a knock on the door 

And a man in a uniform

Me and Sergi was saved by the year we were born

The masks fell off and we tripped in the uniform

Anatoli was different, he was big and strong

The Soviet saw that and told him to come along 

Boy, come along

Mother was crying and her tears fell on me

Through a crack in the door we saw about fifty

Young men

Anatoli was the first to climb number four

They fed him some pills and sent him three times more

Helicopters swarm with ghosts at controls

Dropping concrete and lead into the inferno

There's smoke in the air and ash in the mud

It gets in your mouth 

it gets in your blood

Anatoli felt something he could not understand

The Soviet now won't even shake his hand

остановить - Don’t touch my hand

Alive in the valley of the shadow of death 

Are the men they wanted you to forget

A glowing stain on the Soviet soul

From a machine they built, but could not control

Alive in the valley of the shadow of death 

Are the men they wanted you to forget

A glowing stain on the Soviet soul

From a machine they built, but could not control

The bus returned as quick as it came

But the men it brought back were not the same

Strong Fathers and husbands and brothers and kin

Lie vomiting covered burns on their skin

Then one at a time their pain went away

With the only reminder a plaque to say

Fire, they fought the fire

Fire, they fought the fire

Alive in the valley of the shadow of death 

Are the men they wanted you to forget

A glowing stain on the Soviet soul

From a machine they built, but could not control

Brother don't go

Brother don't go

Brother don't leave me