Anastasia's former band One Wing Left was active in Oxford, UK, from 2013 to 2016. 1942 was released on February 14, 2016 as part of the album The Media Without a Voice.
Lyrics and melody, Anastasia Gorbunova. Music and performance, One Wing Left. Recorded and mixed by Steve Geezer Watkins at Woodworm Studios, mastered by Tim Turan of Turan Audio.
Anastasia Gorbunova – vocals
John Puplett – guitars
Sean Foxley – bass
Arun Dhanjal – drums and percussion
Maiquel Martini - creative consulting.
This track contains samples from radio documentary “Govorit Leningrad” (Leningrad speaks) on the work of Leningrad’s radiostations during the Seige of 1941-1944 by Leonid Dubshan. Listen to the radiofilm here: www.staroeradio.ru/audio/20619
The track also contains an exerpt from the 1942 poem “The ballad of a stale piece” (Баллада о черством куске) by Vladimir Lifschitz.
Lyrics
Strip to tears
Find the confidence
But never bite the hand that feeds
Sell your time
Between the hours of broken news
Give a child the pay
Deafening silence
Sweat away your class
Your rescue is your own
Responsibility
Bodies still warm
They stink but help you find the rats
With a clear shot
Towards total apathy
(this is where it all began)
Set the toll
Boil the water out of snow
And make a meal from sawdust
Silver rain in an endless town
И опять сквозь лучи
Снег летит, как сквозь сито.
Снег летит, как мука, -
Плавно, медленно, сыто…
Carve the corpse
Hope that no one finds out
Preservation above all else
Panic warms you
Sweat away your class
Your rescue is your own
Responsibility
Bodies frozen
But they are all that’s left
There’s only thin ice
Between the road to death
And the road to life