Hail Of Bullets - On Divine Winds lyrics
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Tracks 01. The Eve Of Battle
02. Operation Z 03. The Mukden Incident 04. Strategy Of Attrition 05. Full Scale War 06. Guadalcanal 07. On Coral Shores 08. Unsung Heroes 09. Tokyo Napalm Holocaust 11. Kamikaze 12. To Bear The Unbearable 01. The Eve Of Battle
(Instrumental)
02. Operation Z
From the kuriles
Steaming south To ride the tiger Climb the mount Undiscovered In misty cold High stake gamble The crippling blow Hammering guns Armour piercing bombs Aiming at the battleships Ground facilities Carriers not at anchorage Safe on open sea Nakajimas Screeching dives Eager bandits Do or die Pearl Harbour Paralyzed Steel downpoor On Hawaii Capsized Capsized, sunken vessels Defenceless Defenceless casualties Massacred Massacred by treason A date witch will live in infamy 03. The Mukden Incident
Bold expansion
Claiming territory A rising empire Colonial policy Assassinations An empress dies Provocations Intrigue and occupy Without warning Lack of Declarations As warfare fulfills Industrial ambitions Securing reserves With merciless repressions Vast raw materials Obtained by submission The annexation Of Korea Prepare for invasion Rich Manchuria Illegal province Unrecognized by Chang The Kwantung army Challenges the Kuomintang Head for war! September 19th 1931 Incident at Mukden Fatal explosion Sealing world's karma A war's detonation Off to war! 04. Strategy Of Attrition
Crossing frontiers
From the peninsula The horde advancing Into China On the rampage Insubordination Cabal of generals Rebellion Operate without approval Divisions run amok Mobilizing border troops Pilling up their stocks Conducting manoeuvres Harsh arrogance Swallow the giant With malevolence Increase aggresion Sweep into Chapel Rotation bombings Burning Shangai Open game for victors As they mow civilians down Public decapitation But still they did not bow Imprisonment meant slavery Mass-rapes day and night Use of chemical weapons No surrender insight Strategy of attrition Lure intruders far inland Retreat, harass, attack Penetrating fragile flanks Devouring juggernaut A tactic to repeat Impossible conquest Never complete 05. Full Scale War
Multiple offenses
Zenith of tyranny Global confusion Sublime strategy Formidable fighters Superiority Swift rapid movement Pace of victory Isolating coastlines Outflanked enemy Consolidating Obtained territory Combined forces From Guam to Singapore Nippon reigns supreme Full scale war Hardened soldiers Morale high Outclassing Zero's Mastery of the skies Majestic navy Unquestioned prevalence Scavenging the oceans None its equivalent Combined forces From Guam to Singapore Nippon reigns supreme Full scale war 06. Guadalcanal
Code breakers forewarning the movement
Midway the decisive defeat Inflicting irreparable damage Ambushing the imperial fleet Preparing to neutralize the strongpoints Launching the Pacific campaign Invade this remote archipelago Islands of which no-one knew their names This godforsaken outpost They must hold at any cost "Say a prayer for your pal At Guadalcanal" Primitive first langings Ashore the Solomons The 1st Marine Division Holding tight their guns Witnessing how four Destroyers Sank deep in The Slot Then; grim realization That they were left to rot Night Rat Transportation The Tokyo Express Delivering reinforcements To slay the Leathernecks Dug in round Henderson Field On roots they survived Standing firm on Bloody Nose Till relief arrived 07. On Coral Shores
Tons of high explosives
Plastering the reefs Amphitracs approaching Offloading LST's Establishing the beachheads Perimeter secured Distant laying battleships Roaring whilst harboured Barbed wire and minefields Concrete obstacles Cautiously proceeding Behind armoured vehicles Say farewell to their comrades Left in blood red waves A sudden hail of metal From camouflaged caves Barrels of all calibres Decimate the ranks Concentrated fire Hidden Ha Go tanks Airborne hara-kiri Devastating wings Naval bombardments Ever ongoing Shermans cracking pillboxes Grinding spider holes Flamethrowers spewing Burn nests on these atolls Corsairs sending rockets Drive the enemy back Launch in desperation Vicious counterattack Storming on a noxious stew Of putrefying dead Fierce hand-to-hand combat Charge with bayonet Severed heads, blackened flesh Blood, bones, filth, and gore Torn cadavers exposing The gruesome face of war Insulate coral shores 08. Unsung Heroes
Catastrophe at Bataan
Finished gallant stand First encounter made Those they fought Valiant With high forced tempo The infamous death March Kicking, beatings, stabbings Merciless guards Without food or water Not allowed to rest Constant molestations The heat intense Executions Bewildered men With loss of thousands Assembled in camps Emaciated corpses Depressed environment Deteriorating carcasses Malnutrition ailments Nightmare of captivity This condition is Hell General debilitation Repulsive smells Herded into holds Destination Japan Space inadequate Lack of oxygen Crazed by dehydration Shivering from cold Dying of pneumonia Or US torpedoes Humiliation Exhaustion No medication Inanition Deprivation Starvation Day of liberation Some fortunate survived Lived to tell their tales Traumatized for life No medal or promotion We must never forget All those unsung heroes Forever we're in debt 09. Tokyo Napalm Holocaust
Distant shadows
Altitude low Sirens warning For the blow Formations of superfortresses Incoming B-29s Hunters guiding Silver silhouettes B-San droning through the night Delivering obliteration The end of the empire is nigh Determined to bring the apocalypse Unleashing it from darkened skies Napthenic palmatic acids Mixed with jellied gasoline The phenomenon of the firestorm Exploding incendiaries Most destructive of all weapons Vile product of chemistry Annihilation from the heavens Damnation falls on the city Napalm cylinders Burst into fires Collapsing buildings Overcrowded hives Asphyxiating Roasted alive Immense incandescent vortices Inferno's ultimate stage Walls of screaming humanity Consumed by the whirling rage Desperate mother's suffocating Their babies fried on their back Smouldering rest of existence Civilians carbonized and black Two hundred thousand Burned, charred, and boiled Deformed carcasses Twisted and coiled Disintegrated Into hot soil Gigantic pyre Of melted flesh Holocausted Reduced to ash 11. Kamikaze
Out of the rising sun
Into their death they fly Messengers of destruction Glorious suicide Sacrificing squadrons One cannot shoot them all AA gunners blasting Deafening fireballs Following the first wave The next scourging swarm Watch the carriers sinking Hellish blazing storms Drilling deep in floating steel Ammo detonators Annihilate the ennemies Destroy, retaliate Forever in remembrance The honour is to dive Direction eternity Eternal afterlife Fearless goes the samurai With godspeed from the skies Servants of the emperor On divine winds they die Bound by the oath of Bushido The blessed warrior's way Holy end in battle That long awaited day Utmost sacred mission Never to return Pride vanishes in the flames As homeland waters burn 12. To Bear The Unbearable
A nation in shambles
The country scarred Shame and dishonour Lost their first war Bitter surrender Unconditional Disgraced to bear The unbearable |