# Blue sky, burn for me

Александр Владимирович Молягов

Авторский перевод с авторского оригинала "Синее небо, гори для меня"

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Wildflowers bloom in the blue sky...

It's impossible to hide on such a clear day!

The sound of the engine has ceased to be musical.

All that remains of the plumage is its name.

1.

The flak hit hard in the wing.

My left side buckled like tin.

The engine coughed black smoke...

And the sky came apart again.

My hands shook on the stick.

The ejection light stayed dead.

I spoke your names out loud,

Like a rope I could still grab...

Pre-Chorus:

And I fell through fire

With my heart still trained on home...

One more breath, one more mile

One more place to be known...

Chorus:

Blue sky, burn for me!...

Wildflowers in the blue sky...

Blue sky, burn for me,

Let my children hold them high!

Blue sky, burn for me,

While the world turns into hell!...

Blue sky, burn for me!

I still see the life I meant to tell...

2.

I saw the porch at noon,

The paint peeling in the sun...

I saw my girl with chalk dust hands

And the bike I never outgrew...

I wanted fields, not smoke...

I wanted fences, bread, and rain...

I wanted to come back whole,

With my medal and my name...

Pre-Chorus:

But the floor kept dropping,

And the canopy shone like a blade...

I watched my future scatter,

Like ash in a hurricane...

Chorus:

Blue sky, burn for me!

Wildflowers in the blue sky...

Blue sky, burn for me,

Let my children hold them high!

Blue sky, burn for me,

While the world turns into hell!

Blue sky, burn for me! -

I still see the life I meant to tell...

Bridge:

I saw them running barefoot

Through a meadow made of light...

Small hands full of blossoms,

Laughing under morning white...

Bouquets in their paper fists,

Carefree as the summer wind...

And I, falling through the furnace

Reached for them again and again...

Final Chorus:

Blue sky, burn for me! -

Wildflowers in the blue sky...

Blue sky, burn for me! -

Let my children hold them high...

Blue sky, burn for me,

While the horizon breaks and screams!

Blue sky, burn for me! -

I am torn between two dreams.

Outro:

If I do not land,

Let my name be carried home!

Blue sky, burn for me!..

I'm still my father's son.


Narva. 22/06/2026.