Songtext von As History Would Have It

Sentries are on the bluff You would be wise to not be the last Soldier in this line as we make our way through this brush How did we get so pinned down To have to fight all and nothing at once? Rot sets in from trenches dug with our cold, bare hands The rain's burning through the roof Made from lies a bullet can't touch and Brothers look in each other's eyes For reasons to make the reasons just The ground never felt so cold The barrels of our guns get too hot to hold We wouldn't dare put them down It's best that we don't stand up In a war from which no one is exempt We were told before we left to repent I watched the smoke smother the lost politics And fade away into the crisp, mourning air Centuries are in the dust We are no more wise to see through glass Cases displaying the ways history had with us How did we get so pinned down? Dying to fight and fighting to die? Rotting in the trench that's dug, every time, by and by Memory is best kept short and sweet In a world that is quick to forget Memory is best kept short and sweet In a world that is quick to forget you