Текст (слова) песни: Iniquity - Poets Of The Trench Part Ii

[Lyrics: Fagerlind]

I remember sitting in the train.
Though it seems ages ago, I figure that
no more than a couple of weeks have elapsed since then.
I also remember the thoughts racing in my mind. Id read that before going
into battle, even the most ardent veteran soldier feels the pangs of fear,
and I wondered why I only felt a sense of numbness in my stomach and legs.
Premonition perhaps?
During training wed been told by our senior officers always to keep our
carbines clean of grime.Cleansed mine for what might have been the fiftieth time, whilst rolling
through the French countryside listening to the distant thunder.By then I didnt realise that it was the mellow booming of
the Germans
heavy artillery, shelling our line. Or, maybe, ours shelling theirs?
Id heard that even if youre dug in, in a shelter, the big howitzers
could get you.
In the train I split a cigarette with a guy from back home. This was his
second trip to the front. He told me how his former company was set to dig
out a bombed cellar, and how the people they found had been uninjured by
the shrapnel and fire. They had been crushed by the pressure of the
detonation - their lungs had been pushed through their mouths.He also told me to swap my bayonet for a field shovel at any
given moment.
"When youre at close quarters, a sharpened field shovel can lob the head
off a mans shoulders. And it wont break or get stuck in the ribs like a
bayonet." Thats what he said.His name is Liam, or was Liam. As Im writing this, I can hear him
screaming. I can just barely make him out in a crater next to the German
trench. Horribly entangled in barbwire. Hes not screaming for his mom or
anything. Just screaming. Maybe his throat has been lacerated. It sounds
kind of gurgling. And hes lost both his legs... Guess he wont be screaming
much longer...
God I wished that I had a grenade or something, so I could end his misery
right now.
Well, even if I had a grenade, I doubt that I would be able to hurl it to
him.Ive been holding most of my entrails back with one hand, since darkness
fell.Irony of ironies - the German that opened my stomach knew the trick with
the field shovel, too.Or maybe he wasnt German at all. They have a Hungarian penal legion
posted along the line.Maybe he was one of them?
I crushed his head with my respirator canister. Never thought of that as a
weapon, but in the heat of close combat, anything will do... Ive seen
soldiers gouge each others eyes with bare hands... And I saw a boy, no more
than fifteen or sixteen, rip a Germans throat out with his teeth.
It is madness! Mere animals clawing at each other.

Now in the breaks between the drumfires, I can hear the enemy mustering in
their trenches. I can hear the sucking sound of boots being yanked out of
the knee-deep clay, and the dry clanging of a water-cooled MG being
reloaded.The next charge cant be far off, and yet still fear eludes me. For the
first time in weeks, Im certain of whats going to happen.
When the sun rises and hardens the clay, Ill be here no longer. The same
numbness I felt in train has returned, and I know my time is at hand.
Guess Ill be screaming no more...

Другие песни Iniquity:

Bloodletting
Border Into Shadow
Forensic Alliance
From Tarnished Soil
Inhale The Ghost
Poets Of The Trench
Poets Of The Trench Part Ii
Pyres Of Atonement
Random Bludgeon Battery
Sidereal Seas
Spawn Of The Abscess
Surgical Orb
Thawed For Breeding
The Bullets Breath
The Last Incantation
The Rigormortified Grip
Tides Of Vengeance