The alarm sounds (Ревёт тревога), the road awaits (ждёт дорога). They with many (Их немало), us with little (нас немного). We are in an unfair world (Мы в несправедливом мире) tin wolves in the shooting range (Жестяные волки в тире).
Title track from the album (YouTube, Bandcamp, Spotify) released in 2023. Featuring девять песен о войне, nine songs about war, с ее похоронами в финале, with its funeral in the finale (Meduza 2023).
Video clip by Какой-то либерал, 2023
Lyrics, lyrics with translation
Also see, from the same album, the videos for
Finale and conclusion: Funeral of the War
Lyrics
Юрий Юлианович Шевчук / Yuri Shevchuk (1957) is one of the founders (in 1980) of DDT, and thus perhaps a familiar voice.
Дмитрий Александрович Емельянов / Dmitriy Emelyanov (1988) collaborated with Zemfira and also plays in Obe Dve, among many other projects.
Юрий Шевчук и Дмитрий Емельянов о своей новой работе
(Yuri Shevchuk and Dmitriy Emelyanov on their new work)
(OfficialDDT, 2023, 2 m)
Most of the music here is also in this R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of publication).
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Last updated December 17, 2025
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