No Man's Land

The salient is an arc of flame

Machine guns fire in hysteria

Thousands of soldiers die every day

The wounded scream in agony

Witness the last attack of the cavalry

Gunned down and shot to pieces

The artillery created a landscape equal to the moon

Through a storm of steel

Through no man's land

Bullets blow you to kingdom come

No man's land

Only the rats grew fat on attrition

Glutted with the flesh of dead soldiers

Loathsome, bloated creatures

Half blind and big as cats

The morale of the army

Was sinking in the swamps of the salient

Vicious in victory

We're out for war, war to the death

Through a storm of steel

Through no man's land

Bullets blow you to kingdom come

No man's land

Stuck on a bayonet, or shot at dawn

Life expectancy, there is none

Men slipped and slithered

Through bloody soil on the battleground

Divisions were going across like terriers intent on flushing rats from a hole

Through a storm of steel

Through no man's land

Bullets blow you to kingdom come

No man's land