All battalions on the hill Crashing down about your ears Hear the screaming cold and shrill You know it's hard to hide your fears You wanna leave this place today You know your time will come Remember what they say Or else you're gonna go See the general on the hill He hopes behind the man All around his troops are in the fields They're waiting to invade our land The captured may not make a stand We've got to hold our ground We're gonna fight till the very last man Till the bugler starts to sound And now the battle's over We see the troops have fled But in the fields there's burning bodies Of the hundred thousand dead Bring tribute to the mastery The opposing generals dead Raised high above the battlements The bomb is calling up dead