No Survivors

The sun is dawning on another sea of blood and mud

March against machine guns like lambs being driven to the slaughter

Tornadoes of shrapnel

The wounded sinking in three feet of mud

Dying grotesquely

Wading through the swamp among the carnage

No -Our last assault for victory

No -Shattered by machine gun fire

No -Bombs rain down in cataracts

No -Carnival of death

Shellshocked, paralyzed, staring into the gloom

Penalties for desertion

Death the reward for cowardice

Salvos, cannonades, unleashing hysteria of rage

The senselessness of it all

Grew like a cancer in the minds of the troops

No -Our last assault for victory

No -Shattered by machine gun fire

No -Bombs rain down in cataracts

No -Carnival of death

No survivors

No survivors

For weeks I have waited in this mud

I'm shaking, I'm wet

The stench of my dead friends

Relieved when we finally march in

This waiting is killing me

Traumatized eyes, as we go in

Bodies everywhere, the bullets scream

We can't survive but we march in

Nothing to win but I go in

Don't care if this killing is a sin

I just want to end this hell I'm in

I hit the bottom, we did not win

No -Our last assault for victory

No -Shattered by machine gun fire

No -Bombs rain down in cataracts

No -Carnival of death

No survivors

No survivors