Menschenmühle

Field gray, piping, close together
Hobnail boots step by step
Backpack, tent freshly packed
Left, two, three, four sounds in rhythm

Forward, enemyward, target ahead
Marching orders always straight ahead
Men shout it out loud
At Christmas, we are at home

Germany, Germany
Empire
Addiction to war and madness

Germany, Germany
Fatherland
Bloodlust in delusional mind

Germany, Germany
Empire
Addiction to war and madness

Germany, Germany
Fatherland
Bloodlust in delusional mind

Trenches, barbed wire
War loans, weapons production
Meat grinder, mud grave, loss of men
Annexation, territorial expansion

Human mill, mass grave
Steel factories, workplace
Emperor moves and farmer dies
Chessboard world brings war

The world is sinking in war
The world is sinking in war

Germany, Germany
Empire
Addiction to war and madness

Germany, Germany
Fatherland
Bloodlust in delusional mind

Germany, Germany
Empire
Addiction to war and madness

Germany, Germany
Fatherland
Bloodlust in delusional mind

Nineteen fourteen, world closure
Land tolls through loss of men
Pickelhaube waves alike
Swarming into the Kingdom of the Franks

Belgium, France, Eiffel Tower
Russia comes in iron storm
North Sea, naval warfare, Skagerrak
Isonzo, Patern, Alpine battle

Stuck, entrenched
Downpour and hail of iron
Forward, backward, not an inch
The front is not shifted westward

Human lives as material
Consequences simply don't matter
Politics stained with delusion
The world covered in blood and mud

Germany, Germany
Empire
Addiction to war and madness

Germany, Germany
Fatherland
Bloodlust in delusional mind

Germany, Germany
Empire
Addiction to war and madness

Germany, Germany
Fatherland
Bloodlust in delusional mind