Decaying - Battle Of The Somme lyrics

Receiving orders Down from the high command With plans to move forward Once again in this mess they call war Final words were shed In this hell, this battlefield Machine guns will not fail As the bullet rain hits the flesh Endless casualties Over one million dead Obsolete tactics blended with Modern armament Entrenched In the battle of Somme The indecisive event Once a morbid mess Blood spilled everywhere Thousands of men now lay dead First battle to introduce tanks An unforgiving hell Fighting for the fatherland Desperately making a stand Trench warfare supreme All the divisions clash Indecisive result Nobody in benefit Five months of bloodbath The fierce fighting for the Somme The startup of the encounter First day of July, unbelieveable carnage toward the brits Exit the trench when the order is whistled Few seconds to live, machine gun torrents mow you to bits The failures on the tactical side Human wave a**ault, the d**h toll will mount Unprepared for the misery - just a mad waste of human lives What's the price for a mile? Is there any substance behind bravery and honour? To enter the no man's land Or to die in the distress of those trench lines Unable to reach the objectives Set by the old men around the stuffed tables Experiencing the hell, horrors of war Depending on luck, not on reason