March out, submissive, tundra-locked labor slaves 
 Eight years inside here, counting down our endless days 
    We're rationed, worked and flogged 'til bitter dusk dissolves 
 And backons back to here, so far from mother's arms   
 Each day, a penance, each night, a sigh 
 Through every night I ponder, what exists beyond these walls   
 This dreaded repetition, gnawed flesh, a shield gone numb 
 I'll tread this place no longer, tomorrow I'll be gone   
 Into the unforgiving, a bleak and barren land 
 This rock, and birch-bound cradle, saps the life from me 
 No gods, no laws, just open empty earth 
 At one with crystal-white, to die alone   
 Narodnaya, our time is nigh, open your door to the end   
 White clouds of frozen breath, these ghosts accompany 
 Waiting for death, together longing for release   
 And from my resting place, I stare at narodnaya 
 Beneath the gray clouds brooding, the air escapes my lungs