The Apotheosis of War - Revision history

99.240.138.29: New page: The call came out and I answered strong
For Patria rose I up
I knew not what she would demand
When I partook of this trembling cup My bounden duty was I taught to do

2009-03-26T01:53:25Z

New page: The call came out and I answered strong<br /> For Patria rose I up<br /> I knew not what she would demand<br /> When I partook of this trembling cup My bounden duty was I taught to do<br ...

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The call came out and I answered strong<br />
For Patria rose I up<br />
I knew not what she would demand<br />
When I partook of this trembling cup

My bounden duty was I taught to do<br />
And accoutred with a helm<br />
The rifle's crucifer was I sent forth<br />
Into the killing realm

When with the foe we fought and slew<br />
We communed there in the mud<br />
Our bodies were the Eucharist<br />
And our baptism our blood

God, please help me<br />
I'm at your mercy<br />
Don't want to be here<br />
Don't want to die here

God, please save me<br />
I'm at your mercy<br />
Don't want to see this<br />
Don't want to be this

Pain<br />
I've been hit, but I keep on wading through this pit<br />
Cage<br />
I've been caught, watching helpless as my friends get shot<br />
Dragged<br />
Far away to the darkest parts of society<br />
Tagged<br />
Like sheep, around here human life is cheap

Out of the ground we crawl like ants<br />
The foeman takes his aim<br />
Cut down as the grass of the field, I will die<br />
In the mud from whence I came

No requiem for these boys who fall<br />
But the gunfire's constant rattle<br />
No prayers are said here for the dead<br />
For these men who die as cattle