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 -Shattered by machine gun fire -Bombs rain down in cataracts -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 -Shattered by machine gun fire -Bombs rain down in cataracts -Carnival of death 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 -Shattered by machine gun fire -Bombs rain down in cataracts -Carnival of death No survivors