Wartime symphonies

Counting bodies torn across the fields
Shrapnel blasting overhead
Taste the concoction of dirt and blood
Whirling up from the trembling ground

Drowning in battery fire!
Bow down to Satan’s empire!

The panzer awakens, shells ablaze
Trenches overcome by infernal fire
The grinding of bones under gnawing belts
Run or hide, no one’s leaving alive

Blitz in the night-sky
The horizon is on fire
A hellish rhythm
Heaven’s torn asunder
The crackling of artillery
Clearer the visions be
Now you finally see
Damnation close at hand
Death is the final stand

A single blast and silence came
The phosphorus sheds the skin
Never had a chance to see it come
An agony beyond anything