Nemtsov’s Prayer

[Verse 1]
Walking through the freezing Moscow snow
Under lanterns glowing gold and dim
Truths the powerful would never show
Dared to surface from within him

[Pre-Chorus]
Transparency for every girl and boy
Democracy he worked to build and save
No shadow could his burning heart destroy
Unshaken as a man could be and brave

[Chorus]
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Nemtsov
Righteousness stood against the mud
Through the cold and through the blood
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Nemtsov
No pardon and no fear
While the promise stayed so clear

[Verse 2]
Through the decade years of shift and change
Counting costs of every single word
Things that once were free became so strange
Yet his defiant spirit was always heard

[Pre-Chorus]
He laid the ledger bare for us to see
To challenge every hidden dirty scheme
Believing that the people should be free
To live inside a broad and better dream

[Chorus]
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Nemtsov
Righteousness stood against the mud
Through the cold and through the blood
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Nemtsov
No pardon and no fear
While the promise stayed so clear

[Bridge]
To name the lie
To never deny
He fell upon the stone and bridge
Beyond the winter mountain ridge
He is singing through the heavy rain
Removing every link within the chain

[Chorus]
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Nemtsov
Righteousness stood against the mud
Through the cold and through the blood
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Nemtsov
No pardon and no fear
While the promise stayed so clear