作词 : Matthew Hall
作曲 : Matthew Hall
The Wilderness and Beyond


Verse 1. Into the wilderness
And then head out from there
Axle-deep in midsummer mud swamps
Mosquitoes like a dust storm are everywhere

Less than a month
Before the window closes, it’s serious
Human spirit clinging to the wire
Before the winter freezes Siberia

Br. The road through Russia’s east frontier
(The road through Russia’s east frontier)
On the Kolyma Highway
Asia’s last goodbye-way 
Ch. 
The Wilderness 
And Beyond

Verse 2. Where Yakutsk gleamed
Spirits flag on the endless road to Magadan
The Road of Bones
Right through the heart of nowhere in particular

Heading east
For two thousand brutal kilometres
Past the gaunt old ghosts of the gulags
And the phantom city of Kadykchan

Br. Where tower blocks crumble and decay
(And in the lone apartments)
Diaries left abandoned
The Posters still on walls



Verse 3. 

(And now / Then…) The Pole of Cold
Where the solid earth creaks down below
(And) Ice Fogs enfold
Timber shacks (that are) bowed by the permafrost

Don’t stall the truck !
Keep the motor running - it’s (I’m) serious
Life freezes before your very eyes
In an almost delirious state of mind

But what a story you can tell
(What a story you can tell)
On the Kolyma Highway
Russia’s passed on by-way