[Intro] [orchestral brass fanfare, snare drum rolls, cymbal crashes] [strings and woodwinds play a descending melodic motif] [Choir Interlude] [choir vocalizing: La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la] [woodwind runs, rhythmic strings] [Verse 1] [bass male vocals enter] This Victory Day [brass stabs] Seemed so far beyond our reach Like a dying ember Fading on the beach [strings staccato] There were miles of scorched earth stretching through the dust [snare drum march beat] Toward this day we marched because we must [Chorus] [full orchestra, male choir enters in unison] This Victory Day Smells of powder and of smoke This is our holiday For those with silver on their brow This is our joy With tears upon our face Victory Day! [brass flourish] Victory Day! [brass flourish] Victory Day! [orchestral swell] [Interlude] [choir vocalizing: La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la] [woodwind runs, rhythmic strings] [Verse 2] [bass male vocals] Days and nights! [brass accents] By the furnace burning red Our great Motherland kept watch and never rested Days and nights! [brass accents] Fighting hard through rain and cold Toward this day we marched because we must [Chorus] [full orchestra, male choir in thirds] This Victory Day Smells of powder and of smoke This is our holiday For those with silver on their brow This is our joy (ahh-ahh-ahhh) With tears upon our face Victory Day! [brass flourish] Victory Day! [brass flourish] Victory Day! [orchestral swell] [Interlude] [choir vocalizing: La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la] [strings and brass in counterpoint] [Verse 3] [bass male vocals] Hello, dear mother! [strings soften] Not all of us have made it home Barefoot through the morning dew I long to roam Half of Europe! [strings soften] Half the world beneath our boots Toward this day we marched because we must [Chorus] [a capella, male choir in quarters] This Victory Day [percs] Smells of powder and of smoke [percs] This is our holiday (ahh-ahh-ahhh) For those with silver on their brow [full orchestra] This is our joy (ahh-ahh-ahhh) With tears upon our face Victory Day! [brass flourish] Victory Day! [brass flourish] Victory Day! [Full instrumental] [orchestral swell] [Choir swells Ah-ahh-ahh-ahhh] [Outro] [choir] This Victory Day Smells of powder and of smoke This is our holiday (ahh-ahh-ahhh) For those with silver on their brow [lead vocal] This is our joy (ahh-ahh-ahhh) With tears upon our face Victory Day! [brass fanfare] Victory Day! [brass fanfare] Victory Day! [final orchestral chord with cymbal crash]
