Marching off to war Students and children we are Fighting to the final breath Conscripted to death In the war World war War Trench war Industrialized Mechanized Genocide Whole generation in the front line dying Mass murder, the wounded crying The signal out of the trench Few hundred years in blood drenched Industrialized Mechanized Genocide Crippled for god emperor and fatherland Coming home with only one hand Your legs are splattered, spine is broken It's an honour to be one of the emperors chosen Machinegun rips us apart Then bloodshed with the bayonet Gas attack we are the cannon fodder With our bodies feeding the meat hammer In the war World war War Trench war Dying... For god, emperor and fatherland Great Britain 947000 dead France 1385000 dead Austria-Hungary 1200000 dead Russia 1700000 dead Germany 1808000 dead Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori