Hawkwind - Death of War lyrics

Ebbing eyesight in chlorine clouds
Stealing away barbed wire shrouds
Mowed down in mud by machine gun fire
Trapped and strangled in barbed wire
Silent nights smashed as big guns
Fill bodies full of shrapnel
In their crusade to kill

Far away, politicians, glasses of port
Meet in a toast to a war they've not fought
Holy fire directed and idly discussed
Manufacturing hatred, engineering distrust
Trading clarity for confusion
The ruthless powerlust
Only one thing in common do the leaders share
With those on the battlefield
Fallen down everywhere
And that is their wine
Has good body and it is red
Draining away forever like the
Blood of those dead