Hope - Nadezhda - English Translation

English translation of the song "Nadezhda"
Russian words by Nikolay Dobronravov

 
A distant, unknown star is shining bright,
Once again, we’re torn away from home tonight.
Once again, the cities lie between us far,
Runway lights of airports glowing like the stars.

Here, we have the mists and endless rain,
Here, we meet the cold and dawns again,
Here, along a path that’s still unknown,
Twisted plots await as we move on.

Hope is my compass here on Earth,
And courage is rewarded for its worth.
And one single song is enough to hold,
As long as it sings of home and what it told.

Please believe, from here so far away,
Many things can seem to fade or sway.
Thunderclouds will slowly melt aside,
Even old resentments lose their pride.

You just have to learn to wait, be strong,
Patient and determined all along,
So that life will send you now and then
Sparse and precious telegrams of joy again.

Hope is my compass here on Earth,
And courage is rewarded for its worth.
And one single song is enough to hold,
As long as it sings of home and what it told.

And forgetting still is not allowed
All the songs we left unsung somehow,
Dear and tired eyes we used to see,
Blue Moscow snowstorms in our memory.

Once again, the cities lie between,
Life divides us as it always has been.
In the sky, that unknown star will blaze,
Shining like a monument to hope’s embrace.

Hope is my compass here on Earth,
And courage is rewarded for its worth.
And one single song is enough to hold,
As long as it sings of home and what it told.

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