Amongst the rubble
The whistle blows and we go over the top
The cries of dying men
And the raining of artillery shells

In lands devastated by warfare
Covered by the wires of hell
Creating an impenetrable fortress
Miles upon miles long

Curtains of suffocating razors
Protecting these labyrinths
Concealing my enemies
Behind a fence of torment

Wrapped in
Wrapped in barbed wire

Entangled in rusted wire
Pulling the skin from the flesh
Writhing in agony
Squeezing the blood from the veins

Spilling the blood gloriously
Onto the battlefield
The coils of spines
Reach out as Satan's arms

Wrapped in
Wrapped in barbed wire

A veil of thorns
Skewering the skin
Ripping the sinew
Impaling the soul

Raiding the trenches in the dead of the night
Infiltrating quickly under the cold moonlight
Armed with a knife and stielhandgranates
Sabotage the artillery and kill those who man it

Slitting the throats of those who sleep
Dumping the bodies for all to see
Reduce their morale and efficiency
Capture their officers and make them plead

The orange glow of a cigarette
Becomes a sentry taking his final breath
Blood will travel down the wall of the trench
We will bathe in the blood of the French

There is no morning for these men
Nocturnal warriors under the general's command
We proudly stand among the Kaiser's elite
For glory, honour, and the enemy at our feet

Sturmtruppen
Sturmtruppen
Sturmtruppen
Fear the elite

Feel the knife lodged deeply in your back
Bleeding out cold from the attack
The winds of death come swiftly this night
As your silhouette comes into sight

Immense pleasure is all I feel
The pride of my nation is all that is real
The mission completed upon the eve of dawn
By morning come we will be gone

The swelling pride
The nation's calling
Preparing for war
For our lord
Blood will spill
For the lost
Generation
Is truly lost

Teufel Mit Uns

The sounds
Of war
Is
Of hell rising

Marching to battle
Singing our songs
Of nobility

Deutschland
Uber alles
Hail exhalted Kaiser

Sacrifice must be made
To preserve our prestige
The price: millions of men
For the cloven hoof

Forward soldier
March to the front
Victory is ours
Watch their cities burn
Dominate their lands
Their morale is broken
We will prevail
Imperialistic superiority

Vorwärts
Vorwärts Soldat
Vorwärts
Vorwärts Soldat

Spread the pride of Prussia
Just as 1870
Civilizations crumble
And new ones are born
Our supreme monarchy
Will rule the land
Forward soldier
Go forward and die

The rain falls
And never seems to stop
The soldiers die
And bodies rot
This battle
Will never end
Already
A hundred thousand dead
Like the Huns
A thousand years before
But with higher stakes
And a war torn force

They tell us to just hold out
But for just how much longer?
We're just but men
Sent into a meat-grinder
In a war of attrition
No one can win
Just keep marching
Officers tell the men

1916
Total War
1916

I don't know what day it is
I don't know what year
I've been here for months
Paralyzed with fear
Demons are haunting me
How many have I killed?
The rain turns to blood
And bodies litter the field

Ils ne passeront pas
Is this the truth?
We're supposed to bleed France dry
Have we been taken for fools?

The artillery shells
Fall like rain from the sky
40 million shells
Coming to take my life
God take me
From this hell
I want to die
Please take me

Nothing is sacred
Nothing is worth all of this
Just dig me a hole
And bury me in this pit

The end is coming
It's coming soon
It's coming to take me
And destroy what I knew
The bayonet
Pierces my chest
I gasp for air
And I receive death
I was born and raised
To die in a mud filled ditch
Like so many others
Dying with a final twitch
Everything turns to black
I'll never again see the sun
In that which is known
As the Hell of Verdun