How can I repay you, brother mine?
How can I expect you to forgive?
Clinging to the past, I shed our blood.
And shattered your chance to live.
Though I knew the laws, I payed no heed.
How can I return your wasted breath?
What I did not know has cost you dear,
For there is no cure for death.
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet,
Once you were gone we were not complete.
Back through the years we reached for you,
Alas 'twas not meant to be.
And how can I make amends?
For all that I took from you?
I led you with hopeless dreams,
My brother, I was a fool.
Don't cry for the past now, brother mine.
Neither you nor I are free from blame.
Nothing can erase the things we did,
For the path we took was the same.
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet,
Once you were gone we were not complete.
Back through the years we reached for you,
Alas 'twas not meant to be.
My dreams made me blind and mute.
I long to return to that time.
I followed without a word,
My brother the fault is mine.

So where do we go from here?
And how to forget and forgive?
What's gone is forever lost.
Now all we can do is live.

Prosti menya mladshiy brat!
Ya tak pred toboy vinovat
Pyitatsya vernut’ nyelzya
Togo, chto vzyala zyemlya

Kto znayet zakon byitiya
Pomog byi mne nyti otvet
Zhestoko oshibsya ya
Ot smerti lekarstva nyet

Milaya mama! nyezhnaya!
Myi tak lyubili tebya
No vse nashi silyi
Potrachenyi byili zrya

Tebya soblaznil ya
Prekrasnoy nadezhdoy
Vernut’ nash semeynyiy ochag
Moy brat, ya vo vsem vinovat.

Nye plach’, nye pechal’sya,
starshiy brat!
Nye tyi odin vinovat
Doroga u nas odna
Eskupim vinu do dna

Mnye nye v chem tebya upreknut’
E ya nye obihem nichut’
Tyazhek, nash gryekh
Khotet’ byit’ silneye vsekh

Milaya mama! nyezhnaya!
Myi tak lyubili tebya
No vse nashi silyi
Potrachenyi byili zrya

Ya sam soblaznisya
Prekprasnoy nadezhdoy
Vernut’ nash semeynyiy ochag
Ya sam vo vsem vinovat

No chto zhe nam delat’, kak byit’ ?
Kak vse ispravit’, zyabyit’ ?
Pyitst’sya vernut’ nyelzhya
Togo chto vzyala zyemlya