STORM OF STEEL song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

[for Ernst Junger]

there was a storm of steel
out on the Western Front
a storm that lasted years
for the generals and grunts

from the guns of August run
to the Battle of the Somme
from the blacking out of sun
to the end of days to come

there was a storm of steel
and the beating of the drums
there was
there was a storm of steel

my friends were brave and true
but all of them are dead
and I would be dead too
but for a wounding in the head

they carried me away
to heal behind the lines
but when I returned one day
they had all run out of time

I got the Iron Cross
for doing not a thing
kowtowing to the boss
and bearing suffering

the bombs kept raining down
my eyes were tightly clenched
trying to keep intact my bowels
while lying in the trench

at Arras I was strong
at Ypres I was best
the Spring Offensive long
took a bullet to the chest

when war came to its doom
I wasn't on my feet
they came into my room
gave me the Pour le Mérite

and they left me there alone
hoping that I would revive
my heart was like a stone
I was the last one left alive

there was a storm of steel
that I remember well
I guess Heaven's my reward
cause I done my time in Hell

there was a storm of steel
there was
there was a storm of steel

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