Odessa Lyrics

A memory

The blue-black sea

Swineherds and Shepherds

The Golden City

Old and new

And the Greek Bazaar

Before and after

October's Hero

The shades of all the faces

Change

All the different names

Bring fear

Razing the uncharted underground

The city above sings along

And out of the past into the Black Sea night

We still can't see but at least we're less blind

On this unwelcoming sea

The riots came

Some left the town

Some forgot the spirit

Of the porto-franco

Then the buildings rose

In that imperial style

Another New Harmony

It always ends the same way

The shades of all the faces

Change

All the different names

Bring fear

Razing the uncharted underground

The city above sings along

And out of the past into the Black Sea night

We still can't see but at least we're less blind

On this unwelcoming sea

Too many myths

Make swelling heads

But those real glories

Are underneath the surface

Pushkin's paradise

Or a civil war?

One or the other

Both tempt the future

The shades of all the faces

Change

All the different names

Bring fear

Razing the uncharted underground

The city above sings along

And out of the past into the Black Sea night

We still can't see but at least we're less blind

On this unwelcoming sea