They could have Lived quietly They all looked alike They were a dirty mass Stinking Undifferentiated They're screwed And they know it Soldiers among soldiers Life had never Seemed less real The scythe of death Plant his scepter Upon a hill of corpses The devil was Hunting bipeds Clenching his claws To smell out blood And blood repairs nothing The sun was setting In an orgy of gore Inflexible routine Of barracks Life The scythe of death Plant his scepter Upon a hill of corpses The devil was Hunting bipeds Clenching his claws To smell out blood And blood repairs nothing The sun was setting In an orgy of gore Inflexible routine Of barracks Life The ground is burning And they don't understand anything but blows Crushed under the caterpillar tracks Condemned to be flayed alive And they saw the reflected image Of their collective hysteria Trapped in their illusion of freedom They were leaving the cold bodies In search of new hosts Their true nature has being revealed Madness to vegetate a few more instants Right into the Sanctuary of the dead It's the law of our life The permanent war against all Crushed under the caterpillar tracks Condemned to be flayed alive And they saw the reflected image Of their collective hysteria