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 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 Liege 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 nought 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