Bastogne lyrics

Standing tall on a sunny day

Basking in its warmth grand

A memorial of names and niches

Where voices of innocence speak

They cannot know war's misery

In winter's frosty grip they were

Where weapons lock in icy melt

Frostbite claims extremities all

Incompassionate, it takes them

In pneumonia's choking hold

In those years in God's fury

Men had to keep courage close

Sense of right lies within each soul

So sacrifice is more than just death

And virtue remains of humanity

The faces are gone, they bivouac

Their whispers ring still clear

In these ears that knew them

But time will claim all, quelling

Keep close freedom's abstractions

Empathy knows the toils of men

Who had to walk with frozen feet

To survive - breathing, eating cold

Where sleep could find oblivion

No sleep, and a frozen canteen

Yet in foreign fields tall, unkept

Lie obscured graves of the foe

Men who fought as duty called

Obligated to serve by tyrant's duress

They merit honour in their loss

To diminish the enemy's distinction

Is to find destruction is mutual

Honour and prestige are balanced

By the victorious and the defeated

Who must regain peace in life again

Bastogne remember them, remember them all

That their lives will always have meaning

Since their blood sated those fertile fields

The iron of arms reduced to rusted relics

Surely the flowers will always grow there