Wo Alle Straßen Enden
Karl Sternau
Where All Roads End
Where all roads end
Our path does not stop
Wherever we turn
Time takes its course
The heart burned
Banished in pain
So we wander lost through the gray no man's land
Perhaps none of us will return to the homeland
To father, mother, sister
Our thoughts are solely directed
In the cannon orchestra
There is no victory here
Captain commands!
Onward, towards the goal!
So faithfully we give our blood for the emperor
In the bloody storm of the accursed Frenchmen
The field post is lost
The mud is ankle-deep
Only eating root vegetables
The stench of corpses
We are lost
Frozen in the wind
My dearest, a whole long year already separates us
But even in the East, protection is needed from the wild Russian hordes
The clouds move eastward
And villages are in flames
We tasted the bitter hand of death at a young age
The land is burnt
Only sand in hand
Eyes flicker with fear from the gruesome war
Will I soon lie in a cool grave like the others?
We are lost
We are lost
We are lost
We are lost
So I walk up and down
Survey the rows of corpses
Who just yesterday at this hour
Were healthy and lively
Who knows where?
So hot, the mind!
Who knows how long the bright sun will shine for me
I only know that when I die, the kind mother will weep for me
We are lost
We are lost
We are lost
We are lost
