Red Zone Lyrics

Verdun stands in the sun

The ground all around is watered with blood

The dead and shells can be found

In the earth that's razed to the ground and it's rough

The Germans look to mount an offensive building up

Thousands and thousands of men marching tough

To a battlefield that stretched miles and miles

Opposing them the French the sacrifice will be enough

As they descend now over the hills

The Germans they attack with numbers they will feel

Always preceded by artillery shells

The number of which will turn this landscape to hell

The river Meus runs in between both armies

Carving its way through the valley like a knife

They wanna take the mighty fortress of Verdun

And bleed the French dry like the wounded from a gun

But as they march you can hear the sound

Of rifles rattling of shells breaking ground

The germans really seek a divisive victory

So they muster up divisions of men bearing down

On the french positions many villages before them

And none will be spared the onslaught when their found

The landscape is turning into brown and some gray

The blood is being spilled on both sides they will say

Verdun stands in the sun

The ground all around is watered with blood

The dead and shells can be found

In the earth that's razed to the ground and it's rough

Send me home

From the red zone

The red zone

The red zone

The red zone

The red zone

Verdun stands in the sun

A contrast to the scenes of horror it's too much

The french mustered up just waves of men

Their aerial reconnaissance saw what they intend

The Germans are moving many masses of guns

And men headed towards the fortress descend

Down upon them so the French stand tall

Across the river the battle rages who will fall

The germans steam roll through the villages and towns

Taking key positions many names of renown

Beaumont, Bezonvaux, Dumont

Fleury, Louvemont, Ornes and Vaux

After this battle they are left in ruins

Unexploded ordnance makes it conclusive

That no one will ever live here not again

The Red Zone wrought from this battle is the end

That is the result and countless soldiers will fall

Taking plots of land just lose it when they stall

The numbers that are silenced in this battle you can tell

But you'll never understand how this earth was living hell

Both banks of the river are contested so fierce

The Germans keep pushing victory if they pierce

Across the river but the French won't give way

Without a fight this battle sheds blood they will say

Verdun stands in the sun

The ground all around is watered with blood

The dead and shells can be found

In the earth that's razed to the ground and it's rough

Send me home

From the red zone

The red zone

The red zone

The red zone

The red zone

Millions and millions of shells crash into the ground

Millions of shells are fired deafening is the sound

Thousands and thousands of men crash into each other falling down

Thousands of men are killed gaining very little ground

The battle renders this land desolate

A zone of red the struggle so desperate

This war hinges on destruction like this

A zone of red that's devoid of bliss

And now you see why this war

Is infamous

For suffering and ruin all around is the tone

The only color is red in this zone

After many skirmishes and bullets fired

The line remains unchanged never higher

The British are moving towards the Somme so shift gears

The Germans must deploy units there it is clear

And Austria Hungary is threatened by the Russians

So send them to the eastern front much discussion

The french have held the mighty fortress of Verdun

But not without the land withering from their guns

The battle renders this land desolate

A zone of red the struggle so desperate

The war hinges on destruction like this

A zone of red that's devoid of bliss

And now you see why this war

Is infamous

For suffering and ruin all around is the tone

The only color is red in this zone

Verdun stands in the sun

The ground all around is watered with blood

The dead and shells can be found

In the earth that's razed to the ground and it's rough

Send me home

From the red Zone