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The Storm...
02:14
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In Reih und Glied!
Vorwärts!
Europe in Euphoria
The birth of a storm
Off now! Off to war!
Europe in Uniform
In East Prussia and Liège
Lemberg and Lorrain
All sides reporting
Territory gains
The mass mobilizations
A food for the storm
For mass extermination
Europe in uniform
Europe in uniform
North-, South - East- and Westwards
The millions start to march
In closed formation forwards
The million soldiers charge
The Germans stopped at the Marne and forced back to the Aisne
An end to any progress but not to the campaign
So the millions now entrench themeselves
The Hun stands at the gate
And while they wrestle for a breakthrough
The storm ebbs into stalemate
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...ebbs into Stalemate
04:55
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Summer turns to Autumn, the rain begins to pour
And slowly all sides realise, that this war won't be short
Bring more ammunition, more supplies, more men
and against better knowledge, let them storm again!
Wave after wave onto open fields
The men are forced out their trench
On thousand miles ten thousands die
Death knows no Russians, no Germans or French
On barren fields, through no man's land,
Just a rifle in their hand
And instead of enemies
They're challenging artilleries
A stalemate and no crucial plan, how this war could be won.
And when the war should have been stopped, it had just begun.
Bring more ammunition, more supplies, more men
And against a better knowledge, let them storm again!
Tout le monde marche
Pour la Grande Guerre
Vorwärts!
On barren fields, in no man's land
Still a million soldiers stand
To challenge the artillery
"Gott mit uns!"... for victory
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Und Ehre ist's
04:50
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Die Eiserne Jugend im Gleichschritt marschiert
Adventurous boys who had volunteered
Die Eiserne Jugend sie singen im Takt
To war! As a patriot's act
They shall fall in Flanders Fields
These iron men of Germany
A waste of young
And unlived lives
Only becomes a sacrifice
If no one survives
Die Eiserne Jugend ins Feuer sie rennt
Half-baked, proud and unbent
Die Eiserne Jugend in Flandern sie fällt
A sacrifice, so unexcelled
They did fall in Flanders fields
These iron men of Germany
Enticed boys
Singing larks
A generation
“Fallen at Langemarck”
So sweet it is
To be a man
So fitting it is
To die for the fatherland
So vorwärts, ihr feldgrauen Herden!
Denn Ehre ist's... fürs Vaterland zu sterben!
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Hinterlandsymphonie
03:56
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An overture resounds
Played by a thousand guns
In continuing rounds
La mort á distance
A repetitive symphony
A concert from the rear
Sung by the artillery
Played by cannoneers
And fire flies through empty skies
Iron songs for iron days
Canon of the cannonry
Hinterlandsymphonie
Iron songs of iron days
Canon of the cannonry
Iron voices, iron lays
Art of the artillery
Hinterlandsymphonie
Conductor of the war
A requiem of steel
Played by an iron orchestra
Thunderous melodies
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Eisenzeit
04:54
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Time is cast in iron
There's no turning back
Every offensive follows
a counter attack
Mass extermination
The price for a mile
And yet the cause
Still seems worthwhile
An endless struggle
And no side prevails
And everything dies
In the iron hail
Life lies down or it dies upright
When iron skies collide
Eisenzeit
Time is cast in iron
A continent at war
The divisions fading
From the Vosges to the shore
An endless struggle
And no side prevails
And everything dies
In the iron hail
Life lies down or it dies upright
When iron skies collide
Not for honour
Not for pride
But the comrade
To our side
And for those
Who came and died
We'll take their cause
And fight their fight
Into extinction, side by side
The iron tide drowns iron pride
So life lies down or it dies upright
When iron skies collide
Eisenzeit
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And thus it begins
Year 1916
Full scale offensives
The world had never seen
Despite the heavy fire
Despite of all concern
Despite the lack of progress
Hundred thousands burn
Advance for advance
Hell is a field...
Hell is a field in France
Between the rotting comrades which
The living knew so well
They prepare the next attempt
To storm the gates of hell
Never ending fire
Ils n'ont pas passé
Even Lucifer's ashamed and
Turns himself away
Advance for advance
Hell is a field...
The hell is a field in France
Soiled bodies burnt,
Molten, merged with the earth
Branded into no man's land
A place like hell but worse
Send the next wave in
Soiled bodies burnt,
Molten, merged with the earth,
Branded into no man's land
A place like hell but worse
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Yperite
04:35
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Focus' back on Flanders
Ypres to be precise
Another toxin's introduced
By the German side
All the noises die in fear
Cannons fade in the rear
The yellow cloud is crawling near
And the front line disappears
Chemical perversion
Saves lives on the own side
Open the cylinder
Release Yperite
A gas you cannot fight
From gas you cannot hide
"Hello" from the other side
"You are killed by... Yperite!"
GAS!(4x)
Terror in the trenches
To die a wretched death
Before you meet your maker take
A deep and painful breath
Terror in the trenches
An unequal fight
On the one side breathing men
And on the other
...Y-pe-rite
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Another actor
Enters the scene
At the Westfront-Theatre
In 1917
Young men mobilised
Brave but unexercised
A decisive power
A rising star
The US-Infantry has
Entered the war
Young men make your stand
Go abroad for Uncle Sam
Patriots and Cowboys
Supply the allied side
With capital and men
Daredevils came to fight
By the dawn’s early light
O, say can you see
The Yanks are coming
From the land of the free
Withstand German offensives
Refill the allied lines
Tipping the scale
Does the star spangled banner yet shine
For a few miles more
Doughboys laid to rest
In the ecstasy of war
Once upon a front in the west
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1918
The war rages on
Allied supremacy
And a foundering Hun
What has it all been worth
See the men still fight
And while they negotiate for peace
See the men still die
So victory and life got lost
In this endless expanse
And even those who returned
Stayed in France
The Great War is over
A deafening silence descends
A soundless dismay takes over
As the stillness still distends
The soldiers outworn, outnumbered, outgunned
A generation war-torn
The man of all sides stunned
Now it's all quiet on the Western Front
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