Comrades Lyrics

Beneath a sky of smoke and steel

Amid the screams and thunderous peal

I fought the fight that could not yield

On fields of death, on bloody field

My comrades fell on every side

As bombs and bullets pierced their hide

But still I fought, with all my might

Through endless day and endless night

So now I wander, lost and lone

A shadow of the man I've known

Haunted by the war's grim toll

And all the darkness in my soul

The trenches echoed with the dead

As I trudged on with heavy tread

With blood and mud and filth and fear

My only hope was to persevere

And when at last the guns fell still

And all around was deathly chill

I stood amidst the carnage, dazed

A soldier still, but sorely crazed

For though I lived to see the end

I knew that I could not pretend

That I would ever be the same

After the horrors of that game

So now I wander, lost and lone

A shadow of the man I've known

Haunted by the war's grim toll

And all the darkness in my soul