Based on the Belarusian folk song «U nas siahodnia Kupała» («we have Kupala day today»). На словы беларускае народнае песьні «У нас сягодня Купала» Kupala Night (“Kupalle”) is an East Slavic midsummer celebration of bonfires, wreaths, and rites of purification and fertility; the lines “It wasn’t a maiden who laid the fire—God Himself set the fire” raise the flame from a folk act to a sacred gift, while the repeated appeal to Ilya (the Prophet Elijah—long syncretized with a pre-Christian thunder god) asks for rain, protection, and a blessing on the harvest. The song fuses pagan and Christian layers (“He was calling all the saints to Himself”) yet keeps an agrarian focus: staying awake through this “little night” to guard the rye and ward off the “serpent,” both literal field pests and a mythic destroyer of crops. - Production: Aliaksei Kartynnik - Music & vocals: Suno - Mixing & editing: Aliaksei Kartynnik - Cover: ChatGPT Track on streaming platforms: https://social.tunecore.com/linkShare?linkid=O1E277E22-VAVi4jpcdOgA LYRICS (close-to-literal translation from Belarusian) [Verse 1] It’s Kupala tonight, to-to-to It wasn’t a maiden who laid the fire, to-to-to God Himself set the fire, to-to-to He was calling all the saints to Himself, to-to-to [Pre-Chorus] Kupala called Elijah, to-to-to Come to us, Ilya (Elijah), to-to-to Come to the Kupala feast [Chorus] It’s Kupala tonight, to-to-to Come to us, Ilya, to-to-to Come to the Kupala feast, to-to-to It’s Kupala tonight… [Bass Drop] It’s Kupala tonight, to-to-to Come to the Kupala feast, to-to-to [Verse 2] I can’t, Kupala, to-to-to I mustn’t sleep this little night, to-to-to I have to keep watch over the rye, to-to-to [Bridge] So that the serpent won’t break it, to-to-to Won’t dig up the roots, to-to-to [Pre-Chorus] Kupala called Elijah, to-to-to Come to us, Ilya, to-to-to Come to the Kupala feast [Chorus] It’s Kupala tonight, to-to-to Come to the Kupala feast, to-to-to It’s Kupala tonight, to-to-to Come to us, Ilya… [Bass Drop] It’s Kupala tonight, to-to-to He was calling all the saints to Himself, to-to-to ТЭКСТ (арыгінал) [Куплет] У нас сягодня Купала, то-то-то Ня дьзеўка агонь клала, то-то-то Сам Бог агонь раскладаў, то-то-то Усіх сьвятых да сябе зваў, то-то-то [Pre-Chorus] Звала Купала Іллю, то-то-то Ты прыдьзі да нас Ілля, то-то-то Ты прыйдьзі на купалля [Прыпеў] У нас сёння Купала, то-то-то Ты прыдьзі да нас Ілля, то-то-то Ты прыйдьзі на купалля, то-то-то У нас сёння Купала... [Bass Drop] У нас сёння Купала, то-то-то Ты прыйдьзі на купалля, то-то-то [Куплет] Не магу я, Купала, то-то-то Гэту ноczку мне ня спать, то-то-то Трэба жыта пільнавать, то-то-то [Bridge] Каб зьмяя не ламала, то-то-то Карэння не капала, то-то-то [Pre-Chorus] Звала Купала Іллю, то-то-то Ты прыдьзі да нас Ілля, то-то-то Ты прыйдьзі на купалля [Прыпеў] У нас сёння Купала, то-то-то Ты прыйдьзі на купалля, то-то-то У нас сёння Купала, то-то-то Ты прыдьзі да нас Ілля... [Bass Drop] У нас сёння Купала, то-то-то Усіх сьвятых да сябе зваў, то-то-то