Odessa

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