What burns where the flame used to be?

[almas]

I can't understand what does this line of the song Only Our Rivers Run Free mean:
What burns where the flame used to be?

 

[SoothingDave]

Don't you have poetry and song lyrics in Ukranian? Do they all make perfect, rational sense?

 

[Piscean]

I can't understand what does this line of the song Only Our Rivers Run Free means:
What burns where the flame used to be?

 

[teechar]

I can't understand what does this line of the song Only Our Rivers Run Free means:

See above. Your sentence was a declarative statement, not a question. Alternatively, you could have asked:

I can't understand What does this line of the song Only Our Rivers Run Free mean?

What burns where the flame used to be?

This song is about Irish nationalism. That part laments the diminished passion [ what burns (now)?] for the country (where the flame used to be - here "flame" means a powerful feeling).