Bratja(brothers)
Prosti menya, mladshiy brat!
Ya tak pred toboy vinovat.
Pyitatsya vernut' nyelzya
Togo, chto vzyala zyemlya.
Kto znayet zakon Byitiya,
Pomog byi mne nayti 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,
Iskupim vinu do dna.
Mnye nye v chem tebya upreknut'.
I ya nye obihen nichut'.
Tyazhek, nash gryekh
Khotet' byit' silneye vsekh.
Milaya mama! Nyezhnaya!
Myi tak lyubili tebya.
No vse nashi silyi
Potrachenyi byili zrya.
Ya sam soblaznilsya
Prekprasnoy nadezhdoy
Vernut' nash semeinyiy ochag.
Ya sam vo vsem vinovat.
No chto zhe nam delat', kak byit'?
Kak vse ispravit', zyabyit'?
Pyitat'sya vernut' nyel'zhya,
Togo, chto vzyala zyemlya.
English transalation
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 paid 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 or I are free from blame.
Nothing can erase the things we did
for the path we took was the same.
How could I expect to call you wrong.
How could you be blamed for what we've done.
Both of us our fools in our desires
for we flew too close to the sun.
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 longed 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.
Sung in English by Vic Mignogna except for one verse.
Plot: Two brothers an older and a younger both lost their mother and committed a terrible sin to try to bring her back to life. One brother lost his body the other a few body limbs. The other brother transports his brother's soul into an inanimate object... they now search to find something that will bring their bodies back.
Character: Older brother(speaks first)
Younger brother(speaks second)
Mother(only mentioned)
Conflict: The boys dead mother brought conflict since their dad left them a long time ago and she was the only one taking care of them. She died a few years after their dad left and they decided to find a way to bring her back but didn't know the taboo of what they were doing which caused them more grief.
Theme: Even though bad things happen the best thing to do is to forget, forgive, and live on.
Setting: Old country home and other places as the brother's travel throughout the world.
