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Backstory:

Song for the performance about the Ukrainian War - a girl singing about her trauma.
A Ukrainian dance group made a film based on my song. As I suggested, they danced on ruins in Charkow. It is a really dramatic performance.
                                                                                                           

Lyrics:

                                                  
Oh mother 5
Verse 1
I can still hear the blast
Tearing apart my nest
Viburnum bush in dust
Is all that has been  left

Chorus
Oh, mother!
 I need to immerse
In your white flowers 
Embrace your branch
Save me, mother
From going insane
Stop the bleeding, 
Sooth my pain
Oh mother, mother viburnum

Verse 2
Ruins became my home
 Dead dusty air
Burned streets, I roam
Lead me to nowhere

Chorus
Oh, mother!
 I need to immerse
In your white flowers 
Embrace your branch
Save me, mother
From going insane
Stop the bleeding, 
Sooth my pain
Oh mother, mother viburnum

Bridge
The news hurts and poisons
Calm in calamity
Sirens no longer frighten
Nightmares of reality
Chorus…


After chorus
I don’t need anything  more 
Then what I had before the war.// OR
 I don't want anything more, than how it was  before the war


The old version
Oh mother 4
Verse 1
I can still hear the blast
Tearing apart my nest
Viburnum bush in dust 
Is all that has been left

Pre-chorus
Walking on debris I reach 
The blooming bush.

Chorus
Oh, mother!
 I need to immerse
In your white flowers 
Embrace your branch
Save me, mother
From going insane
Inhibit bleeding, 
Sooth my pain
Oh mother, mother viburnum

Verse 2
Ruins became my home
Tired, tired of searching
Digging out or asking for
Every necessary thing
Verse 3
The news hurts and poisons
Calm in calamity
Sirens no longer frighten
Nightmares merge with reality
Chorus…

After chorus
I don’t need anything  more than what I had before the war/ OR
 I don't want anything more, than how it was  before the war