✨Реки утонули✨ (v.2)

[Verse 1]
They carved valleys wide,
Through forests, mountains.
They sang to cities,
Now silence falls.

Rhine remembers silver,
Danube dreamed night.
Somewhere between years,
Vanished with tears.

[Chorus]
Rivers drowned in streams,
Lost in Europe's dreams.
Gone without a trace,
Drowned in time and space.

[Percussion Solo – 16 bars, talking drum and shakers, polyrhythmic, soft, conversational]

[Verse 2]
Thames glittered rain,
Seine wore poetry.
Now ghosts in concrete,
Whispers in our heads.

No boats, no fish,
No children's play.
Dry canals, willows sway.
Gave waters, gave souls,
Now empty holes.

[Chorus]
Rivers drowned in streams,
Lost in Europe's dreams.
Gone without a trace,
Drowned in time and space.

[Percussion Solo – 16 bars, djembe and shakers, rhythmic dialogue with piano]

[Bridge – piano and percussion, vocal joins softly]
Beneath asphalt weep,
Secrets buried deep.
Cry for rain in vain,
Forgotten by their own.

If you listen close,
Hear their distant roar:
"Remember us free,
Now we drown in memory."

[Percussion Solo – 12 bars, all percussion, building slightly, then fading]

[Final Chorus – vocal with melismas, percussion supports, no overpowering]
Rivers drowned in streams!
Lost in Europe's dreams!
Gone without a trace!
Drowned in time and space!

[Outro – vocal a cappella, repeating piano melody, percussion fades last]
Rivers drowned...
Drowned themselves...
Remember us...