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To End All Wars
03:38
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Feldwärts!
A spark from 1914 in a summer haze
Smoulder turns to conflagration
Sleepwalking Emperors set the world ablaze
All consuming fire and burning temptation
Feldwärts!
Thus the millions go where iron flowers bloom
on fields once green
Joyful and in steady rows, deployment of the doomed
In these august days of 1914
Europe under arms, mobilized
Into the great demise
For the most noble cause
A war to end all wars
Where all the roads have ended
The armies stand aligned
Where all the roads have ended
The blind advance the blind
Seid umschlungen Millionen, diesen Krieg der ganzen Welt!
Kolonnen! Im Stechschritt auf‘s Manöverfeld!
Europe under arms, mobilized
Into the great demise
For the most noble cause
A war to end all wars
This war shall end all wars
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2. |
Ils n'ont pas passé
04:34
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Where once the world
was torn asunder
and the dead forever wander
They salute
from ridges yonder,
where once they walked through iron thunder
Courage on les aura
Vers l’avant
Tout était mobilisé
Les morts saluent toi
Ils n‘ont pas passé
Ils n‘ont pas passé
With the ridge of hills aflame
A place lives up to its name
The fallen beckon from
Cotê le Mort Homme
Cotê le Mort Homme
Courage on les aura
Vers l’avant
Tout était mobilisé
Les morts saluent toi
Ils n‘ont pas passé
Courage on les aura
Les morts saluent toi
Ils n‘ont pas passé
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3. |
Challenging an Empire
04:03
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Winter 1915
The Dardanelles
Infernal blaze
In Aegaen hells
For the Empire
From distant shores
Anzacs
Into war
Ottoman audacity
at Mediterrainean seas
Challenging an Empire
and its colonies
Massacres inland
Corpses on the water
Crusadian storms shall end
into desastrous slaughter
The sea turns red
On foreign strands
At the edge
Of continents
The sea turns red
On foreign strands
At the edge
Of continents
At the edge of
At the edge of
Continents
Where the worlds burn,
Anzacs to the front!
You sons from oversea
There’s no return
From the bloodlands
Of Galipolli
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4. |
Thunder in the East
04:41
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Heavy motion
Eastern Front
Three Empires
now confront
Austria-
Hungary,
Tsarist Russia,
and Germany
Three Empires
Waging war
Two Emperors
Against a Tsar
The great inferno
where the fire never ceased
Can you perceive
The thunder in the East
Heavy motion
Eastern Front
Three Empires
still confront
A tumbling giant
against cornered beasts
A raging war
in the wild wild East
The great inferno
where the fire never ceased
Can you perceive
The thunder
The great inferno
where fire never ceased
Can you perceive
The thunder in the East
Burning cities
Burning lands
Burning mountains
Burning expanse
And a thunder day and night
The East burns bright
Almost forgotten war
In the end for all in vain
Three empires are no more
But others‘ll meet again
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5. |
Grabengott
04:05
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The altar’s prepared
God has thrown the dice
A leaden prayer
an iron paradise
Masses to the mass
of fire, earth and gas
A solemn procession taught
by a cruel martial god
You baptised the world in flames
Your kingdom came
Soldiers hallowing thy name and
Amen!
Soldiers fall and ascend
thy realm in rank and file
You decide, you command
A godforsaken mile
Masses to the mass
of guns, grenades and gas
A solemn procession taught
by a peace-despising god
You baptised the world in flames
Your kingdom came
Soldiers hallowing thy name and
Amen!
You baptised the world in flames
Your kingdom came
Soldiers hallowing thy name and
Amen!
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6. |
Stahlbad
03:47
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The first bombardment
Cut deep into our hearts
The second tore our souls apart
In barrage fire
we got all astray
and decimated day by day
Stahlbad!
Iron supremacy
Stahlbad!
Superior Artillery
Thrown back
and thrown back in
Forth and back and back again
Within these waves
and iron rains
Goodbye my dearest heart
The earth raped and scarred
The world‘s ripped apart
Stahlbad!
May these be my last words in this world
Into the storm they’re hurled
Stahlbad!
Iron supremacy
Stahlbad!
Superior Artillery
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7. |
Landships
04:12
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June 24th
The day has come
Retaliation
At the Somme
The great encounter
To turn the tides
By innovation
On British sides
Man had learned to tame the flame
and to create machines
War industry
invents history
A driving force
of steel and gasoline
Victory
justifies the means
They Appear!
- Oh, what a sight! -
Over the ranks!
They are here!
- The world turns quiet -
In the face of
advancing heavy tanks
Man have learned to tame the flame
And to create machines
To change the war
Forevermore
A driving force
of steel and gasoline
Moving forth
Through lands of nevergreen
Onwards now!
In one row
Grind and plough
Through the foe
Earth devouring Landships
Iron cavalry
A German apocalypse
Unleash these
Banshees!
They Appear!
- Oh, what a sight! -
Over the ranks!
They are here!
- A world turns quiet -
In the face of
advancing…
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8. |
Through Hell and On
05:30
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Into 1918
One last endeavor
One last push for victory
This time or never
After years of stalemate
German troops advance
To tempt fate by taking fate
in their own hands
Full risk offensives
The fifth year of war
Even more extensive
Than the years before
Reinforcements from the East
With all they have and are
Efforts increased
To still win this war of wars
Onwards!
Through hell and on
Moving, moving, moving!
and then be gone
This war might still be won
By a driven, daring Hun
Through lengthening days of March
A last tremendous charge
Where old laws apply no more
In this climax of the war
Courage born now from despair
Once more: Feldwärts!
Getriebene im Weltenbrand
Immer vorwärts Stück um Stück
Aus Stürmen fern im Niemandsland
Da führt kein Weg zurück
Onwards!
Through hell and on
Moving, moving, moving!
and then be gone
Onwards!
Through hell and on
Through hell and on
Go on!
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9. |
The Road Back
04:09
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Here is not peace,
not the make-believe peace
of the rest of the world,
Here alone the war still exists,
here stand the lost years
Not been fullfilled
they are marching,
their way is far;
it will take long,
but it leads forward
They are marching
a dark army,
the longest way,
into the heart.
here the unlived life
that finds no rest, cries
here the strength and the will
of a youth that died
poured out in one, upon the night
they are marching,
their way is far;
it will take long,
but it leads forward
they are marching,
their way is far;
it will take long,
but it leads forward
It will take many years –
but what is time to them?
they come–
And now the wind is still there
on the desolate, dark waste;
it blows and blows, above are the clouds
the sky, the fields
and the endless wide plains
with the trenches
and shell holes
and crosses.
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