The Grass of Green (Soviet Songs in English)

Dedicated to all Russian cosmonauts. Translated by Boris Anisimov ENGLISH LYRICS: There is a haze around the earth Another sunny day at birth This is the place humanity calls home The globe is slowly swirling on And in the colors of the dawn It seems so lonely and a bit withdrawn. The distant stars and galaxies That seem beyond reality Are closer but are still as cold as ice They faintly gleam like feeble sparks And as were piercing through the dark We see our homes each time we close our eyes We neither hear the roaring of a spaceship Nor see this cold and dark abyss in dreams We only dream of home, of love and friendship, And grass of green near babbling mountain streams We glide amid the satellites Through outer space of fading lights Bombarded by meteorites, but fears Won’t challenge our ability To face this dead tranquility Enchanted by the music of the spheres And somewhere down below I see The earth in its serenity Is wrapped in early colors of the dawn And when our time has fully pa