Puppet in a Play

[Prolog:]

When I´d attained the age of seventeen

My parents send me to a cadet school

All may fellow students were like me

Coming from distinguished homes

They treated us hard, but not unfairly

They drilled us and we learned to stand straigth

We looked s fine in our uniforms

Ans our parents were so proud of us

We went to many fancy dress balls

And met the sisters of our fellow friends

And also women that we shouldn´t know

But hese were things that we kept for ourselves

We didn´t had the faintest notion

What fighting on the battleground means

In those days everything was glorious

And the departure was not easy for us

The rain ships my face and like strucked by lightning

My comrade falls near by my side

I creep over him, I pull him back - hopefully he is alive

Through smoke, fire and blood, through all that hellfire

I carry him save to our camp

But in my exitement I lost attention

That something has taken his soul

Was it worth the price - This human sacrifice

I have tried it with might and main

Alas, but I had to underlay

Against the Death everything´s in vain

I was just a puppet in a play

I´m wounded and sick

My comrade beside me

Is wounded and struggles with death

I try t help him as best as I can

In all this horror and pain

In blaze, blood and danger with kindred emotions

I try to ease his mind

But deep dark shadow that move like monsters

Shake him and take him away

Was it worth the price

This human sacrifice

I have...

Now war is over but I´m still in service.

I survived in this horrible dream

I miss my brother, who deserted the colours

He wrote me, he is alive

By nighfall they called me for an execution

But oh God what did I see

These clear proud eyes where the eyes of my brother

I close my eyes as I shoot

Was it worth the price

This human sacrifice

I have...