Arise

Everything changes as time passes by,
Now touch with your lips the freedom of mine!
Your yesterday’s truth was an open surprise,
But time has passed — and today it is lie.

Lock out all your windows and climb to the roofs,
By stairs made of thunder — new life now we prove!
Forget all your weaknesses wasting our pride,
Throw down the smouldering candle — it’s meant now to die!

For us the sun is rising over lies,
Like flare of a cherished flame.
Last darkness lets us feel its light,
It pours down stars in April rain!

No God! — Hey! — shall live in these rays!
We rise from the dust,
Above all the strain!
From ways of hell,
From sorrowful isles,
We follow your rising eyes!
Arise in hope!

We want to be free like birds in the sky,
Born first to crawl — now learning to fly.
Life is like cold walls that weigh us inside,
It poured indifference into our minds.

Ideals are lost and all dreams've gone away,
We live — yet don’t see an approaching decay.
Our desolate ways like a spring without leaves,
Lost Eden stands still, no winds on the seas.

For us the sun is rising over lies,
Like flare of a cherished flame.
Last darkness lets us feel its light,
It pours down stars in April rain!

Here we are! — Hey! — Rise anyway!
Higher than words,
Higher than pain!
Keep love alive
From sorrowful isles,
We follow your rising eyes!
Arise in hope!


Someone may say: “These are only the words,
A step into nowhere, a moment’s of burst.”
They tried to cool down our blood long ago
Time has passed — but we're still burning our souls.

We rise from the bottom and shout: No other way!
It’s time to replace all the idols we prayed.
The face of despair is already inside —
It’s time to cry out loud: Arise!

Arise in hope
Leave dust with dust
Our time from here
Forever will last!

1993