Лежачого не бʼють
A dramatic post-rock anthem blending traditional Ukrainian instruments like bandura and trembita with layered electric guitars, cinematic string swells, and thunderous drum hits. The intro sets an emotional tone with vocal chants and ambient storm FX. Verses build with swelling strings and distorted guitars, leading into explosive choruses featuring full-band dynamics, passionate male vocals, and backup harmonies. A cinematic bridge introduces harmonic textures with cellos and ambient noise, before a climactic final chorus and a fading outro layered with echoing trembita and vocal chants. Fierce, poetic, and revolutionary in tone.
Лежачого не бʼють
A dramatic post-rock anthem blending traditional Ukrainian instruments like bandura and trembita with layered electric guitars, cinematic string swells, and thunderous drum hits. The intro sets an emotional tone with vocal chants and ambient storm FX. Verses build with swelling strings and distorted guitars, leading into explosive choruses featuring full-band dynamics, passionate male vocals, and backup harmonies. A cinematic bridge introduces harmonic textures with cellos and ambient noise, before a climactic final chorus and a fading outro layered with echoing trembita and vocal chants. Fierce, poetic, and revolutionary in tone.
Lyrics
🌺Текст адаптовано з поезії Т.Г. Шевченка🌺
Intro: Immediate thunder crash, trembita blast, distorted guitar stab with bandura accent
(Тиша… і грім)
Instrumental: Heavy downbeat – thunder FX, cinematic strings, distorted bandura riff layered under a rising drum roll
Verse 1: Gritty rhythm guitar and low bandura rumble, sharp vocal delivery
Хоча лежачого й не б’ють…
То й полежать не дають…
(То й полежать не дають…)
Ледачому…
Тебе ж, о СУКО!
І ми, і внуки,
І люд повстане —
Плюне в руки!
Не прокленуть —
А тілько плюнуть
На тих щенят,
Що ти щепила!
Chorus: Sudden elevation – full band crashes in with trembita and backup chants
Муко! Муко!
О скорб моя!
Пече душа —
Неначе куля!
Чи ти минеш?
Чи спалиш край?
Царів і псів
Веди на майдан!
Verse 2: Tighter groove, distorted guitars + trembita call-response with strings swelling
Псами… царі з міністрами…
Рабами…
Тебе зацькують?
(Не зацькують!)
А люде — тихо,
Без лементу, без страху,
Царя до ката поведуть.
Bridge: Abrupt drop into deep cellos and ambient bandура harmonics
Без лиха… без лайки…
Без плачу… без крику…
Слово — меч,
І дух — великий.
Chorus: Final burst, harmonized vocals, layered textures, trembita echo returns in outro
Муко! Муко!
Печаль моя!
Лиши цей край,
Із пекла — геть!
Не зацькують…
А поведуть!
Правда прийде —
Їй не втекти!
Outro: Echoed cries over fading trembita and thunder FX
О скорб моя…
Моя печаль…
Муко…
Муко…
(Геть…)
📝ENGLISH: They don't beat someone who is lying down!
🌺Lyrics adapted from the poem by Taras Shevchenko🌺
They say you don’t strike the fallen…
Yet won’t let them lie in peace…
(They won’t let them lie in peace…)
Lazy souls…
But you, you BITCH!
You and your heirs —
The people will rise,
Spit into their hands!
No curses —
Only spit
For the pups
That you have bred!
Grief! Grief!
Oh sorrow mine!
My soul’s aflame —
Like a speeding bullet!
Will you pass?
Or scorch the land?
Bring kings and dogs
Into the square!
Like dogs… the kings with ministers…
And slaves…
Will they hound you down?
(They won’t hound you!)
But the people — quiet,
Without screaming, without fear,
Will lead the king
To the executioner.
No evil… no swearing…
No sobbing… no cries…
The word is a sword,
And the spirit — mighty.
Grief! Grief!
My sorrow deep!
Leave this land,
Go back to hell!
You won’t be hunted…
You will be led!
The truth will come —
It cannot flee!
Oh sorrow mine…
My heavy grief…
Grief…
Grief…
(Be gone…)