Peter Tägtgren - The Price of a Mile lyrics

[Female Voice] Throw your soldiers into positions Once there is no escape And they will prefer d**h to flight [Sabaton] Hear the sound of the machine gun Hear it echo in the night Mortars firing, rains the scene Scars the fields that once were green It's a stalemate at the front line Where the soldiers rest in mud Roads and houses, all is gone There's no glory to be won Know that many men will suffer Know that many men will die Half a million lives at stake Ask the fields of Pa**chendaele And as night falls the general calls And the battle carries on and on What is the purpose of it all? What's the price of a mile? [Chorus] Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young mens lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out Thousands of machine guns Kept on firing through the night Mortars placed and wreck the scene Guns the fields that once were green Still a deadlock at the front line Where the soldiers die in mud Roads and houses since long gone Still no glory has been won Know that many men has suffered Know that many men has died Six miles of ground has been won Half a million men are gone And as the men crawled the general called And the k**ing carried on and on What was the purpose of it all? What's the price of a mile? [Chorus] Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young mens lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out Young men are dying They pay the price Oh how they suffer So tell me, what's the price of a mile? That's the price of a mile! [Chorus] Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young mens lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young mens lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young mens lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young mens lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young mens lives