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Seven Days In Stalingrad

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SEVEN DAYS IN STALINGRAD

VERSE 1:
He wore a cross of iron;
He wore a helm of steel.
He dug his berth six feet
beneath the ground.

White heat of a signal flare
Was all that he could feel–
Just before a shrapnel storm
came streaming down.

CHORUS:
The sun spins ‘round
in a circle in the sky;
The crow flies south
as another young man dies.

The snow dusts his lips
as his blood stains the ground;
An altar among many
that will never be found.

VERSE 2:
He bore a cross of iron;
He bore a heart of steel.
He dragged his bones beyond
a skeleton town.

The shrill scream of a Sturmovik
was all that he could hear–
Just before a cordite cone
crashed to the ground.

CHORUS:
The sun spins ‘round
in a circle in the sky;
The crow flies south
as another young man dies.

The snow dusts his lips
as his blood stains the ground;
An altar among many
that will never be found.
Multiple sources of inspiration for this one. Chief among them is Seven Days In January by Wolf T. Zoepf, the memoirs of an officer of the 6th Waffen-SS* Mountain Division chronicling it's combat history. The rest are various articles, interviews, and novelizations by the lucky few (on both sides) who survived the horrors of the Eastern Front in World War Two.

*NOTE: I do not support Nazism, National Socialism, or any of the ideological principles therein; my interest in the subject is purely historical.
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thetitlealwaysgetsme's avatar
this is really cool. you have great imagery in here.