The Dreadnoughts - Foreign Skies lyrics
[The Dreadnoughts - Foreign Skies lyrics]
We are the men of sweat and steel
We are the men the world denies
So now we walk abandoned fields
Beneath these foreign skies
We're gonna join the bitter test
And though there's some will break and fall
Where there's nothing here but happiness
And duty's restless call
So it calls, but only to the chosen
To the boys who landed at Liège
Meet me at the station
In the glory of the sun
Into the arms by which the world was won
Come on and wipe away your tears
And the memories bright and gay
The laughter of unclouded years
Will slowly bleed away
Staring at the stars above
Underneath these foreign skies
We've never been so happy love
In all our goddamned lives
All our lives
Have been for naught and wasted
All our lives, soon to be redeemed
Meet me at the station
With a banner and a grin
We'll watch the sun go down on old Berlin
And when it was done and we'd carried the day
I watched her life's blood go slipping away
And I stared down, into her cold blue eyes
Sweet mother Mary, deliver your grace
Deliver us all from the look on her face
And the screams the long and desperate sighs
All our lives have been a cruel secret
All our lives a tender age in bloom
So I drink this final cup
And rest this weary head
And watch the waters rising up
To wash away the dead
And when we're rid of this disease
And we have won the prize
I never will return to these foreign skies
We are the men the world denies
So now we walk abandoned fields
Beneath these foreign skies
We're gonna join the bitter test
And though there's some will break and fall
Where there's nothing here but happiness
And duty's restless call
So it calls, but only to the chosen
To the boys who landed at Liège
Meet me at the station
In the glory of the sun
Into the arms by which the world was won
Come on and wipe away your tears
And the memories bright and gay
The laughter of unclouded years
Will slowly bleed away
Staring at the stars above
Underneath these foreign skies
We've never been so happy love
In all our goddamned lives
All our lives
Have been for naught and wasted
All our lives, soon to be redeemed
Meet me at the station
With a banner and a grin
We'll watch the sun go down on old Berlin
And when it was done and we'd carried the day
I watched her life's blood go slipping away
And I stared down, into her cold blue eyes
Sweet mother Mary, deliver your grace
Deliver us all from the look on her face
And the screams the long and desperate sighs
All our lives have been a cruel secret
All our lives a tender age in bloom
So I drink this final cup
And rest this weary head
And watch the waters rising up
To wash away the dead
And when we're rid of this disease
And we have won the prize
I never will return to these foreign skies