Requiem [English translation]

Outside in the desert

Withered and burnt

On mountains long ago turned to ice

Buried under debris

Covered with stones

Buried in the meadow and the forest

On the bottom of the sea

Between algae and corals

Lie those who fell on the field of honour

All around are bare stones

And a sky cold as steel

There is no name, no prayer and no number*

They are ground in bone-mills

Burnt in embers

Drawn and quartered

Choked on their own blood

They are hanged on a thousand gallows

Shot in the field

Gassed, stabbed, starved to death

For honour and for gold

And the reaper plays his song

For the dead in the belly of the Earth

Ashes to ashes

And dust to dust

Will be the meadow, forest and field

Under a read poppy field are rotting

The bones of the righteous ones

Ever since the beginning of the world

They are cheated out of life

Disfigured through their faith

Blinded and stupid

Have robbed the arsonist themselves

They have perished before their time

Directed and betrayed

(They) are their own murderer, judge, executioner

(They) were the masters of their death.

And the reaper plays his song...

*meaning that the stones/graves are many, innumerable

• Artist:Subway to Sally
• Album:MCMXCV