Katana - Opium

Awakening from the dampness that covers the land

Moist to the brink of madness, intolerable heat

The young commander rises from his bed

And stumbles to his faltering, stinking feet

Stirring up the dust of the dried out road

Soldiers on the verge of collapsing, lungs on fire

Order must be immediately restored

For the queen, the king and the empire

Disorder

We cannot have disorder

There mustn't be disorder

We'll teach them that disorder

Shall be destroyed

Bayonets on - Shoot to kill - Ready - Aim - FIRE!

Faces ripped apart in a carnage, so vast

A vile reel of molested human remains

The Chinese, poisoned by opium, creating

A slaughterhouse of human build that explains...