Fields of Verdun

Accordi Fields of Verdun

Intro:
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As the drum roll started on that day
        
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Heard a hundred miles away
  
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A million shells were fired
        
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And the green fields turned to grey
    
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The bombardment lasted all day long
        
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Yet the forts were standing strong
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Heavily defended
        
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Now the trap's been sprung 
        
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and the battle has begun
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 Descend into darkness
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  303 days below the sun

             
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Fields of Verdun,  and the battle has begun
           
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Nowhere to run, father and son
            
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Fall one by one under the gun
            
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Thy will be done (thy will be done), 
        
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and the judgement has begun
           
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Nowhere to run, father and son
            
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Fall one by one, fields of Verdun

         
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Though a million shells have scarred the land
       
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No one has the upper hand
         
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From the ground above to trenches
          
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Where the soldiers make their stand
       
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As the trenches slowly turn to mud
         
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And then quickly start to flood
       
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Death awaits in every corner
        
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As they die in the mud, 
         
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fill the trenches with blood
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  303 days below the sun

             
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Fields of Verdun,  and the battle has begun
           
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Nowhere to run, father and son
            
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Fall one by one under the gun
            
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Thy will be done (thy will be done), 
        
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and the judgement has begun
           
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Nowhere to run, father and son
            
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Fall one by one, fields of Verdun

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Fields of execution 
          
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turned to wasteland from the grass
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Thou shalt go no further it was said, 
                
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"They shall not pass!"
    
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The spirit of resistance and the madness of the war
   
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So go ahead, face the lead, join the dead
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Though you die where you lie, never asking why

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 Descend into darkness
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  303 days below the sun

             
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Fields of Verdun,  and the battle has begun
           
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Nowhere to run, father and son
            
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Fall one by one under the gun
            
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Thy will be done (thy will be done), 
        
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and the judgement has begun
           
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Nowhere to run, father and son
            
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Fall one by one, fields of Verdun