The rain begins to pour

As the artillery starts to roar

Soothing ringing in my ears

Their screams I need not hear

The water's red with blood

Bodies sinking in the mud

Tombs amidst the dirt

An atonement to the earth

Another falls beside me

My eyes are glazed with death

When from No Man's Land

Comes burning dragon's breath

My lungs begin to sear

My flesh falls from my bones

A vicious reformation

In death I can go home

Committed to the sea of stone

The place where bloodied poppies grow

There is no life, nothing to show

All sacrificed

All glorified

Their crosses in a row

Now take up my burning torch

Breathe life upon my grave

For every place my body's scorched

To show just what I gave

And in the place a man once stood

Carved upon the trenching wood

Scrawled out with a bayonet

And this is what it read:

For life, we fall

From death, we rise

For we, the heroes

We don't die