The Bite And Sting

I've spent days in this trench in the snow

Just my gun by my side.

It's cold and wet and you're all alone

Up keeping watch at night.

The bite and the sting

The bitter cold brings

Reminds you that you're still alive

The hope and the pride

That we all hold inside

Seems to break when another boy dies

The bite and the sting

The bitter cold brings

Makes you wish that you weren't still alive

The hope and the pride

We all hold inside

Seems to break

Seems to break.

We ain't seen no germans for days

We're just tired and sore

And it feels like I'm wasting away

So I drink from my flask to stay warm.

Every bomb miles away

Every faded engine cry

Still makes your heart start to race

Keeps you praying at night.

It's too quiet and too calm

For something not to be wrong

So we sit as brothers in arms.

So we wait and we shake

Hear the roar of the tanks

And the gunfire of the oncoming storm.

The ring in our ears

And the cold rush of fear

Overtakes us with the enemy in sight.

I stagger, but don't falter

I aim and pull the trigger

And we fight, we fight, we fight.

But it all happens too fast

The blur of the sweat in my eyes

For every man killed

Seems 2 of my friends fall to die

I'm down on my knees

Feel the pain in my gut

And the snow is covered in blood.

Crawl to my captains side

With his head on my knees

Says "see to it that my grave is kept clean"

Awake in a hospital bed

Just rows and rows and rows of dying kids.

And I know

That my whole

Infantry is dead.