Dieselrök [English translation]

Is life hard and does the day seem tough and grey to you?

Are the defeats many and the successes few?

Here's the recipe1 for a good philosophy,

an explosive power boiling with massive energy

Minefields and shells

Every day an explosion

Live it like soldiers

in an armoured brigade

Stand firm, smite hard

If you need an example, follow ours

Smite hard, shoot down

until chaos and blood and diesel smoke are all that you see

When a first ray of the morninglights presses forward

be ready for another day in smoke and dust2

If the storm is violent, regroup, bide time

Yet tomorrow a tough and bitter fight awaits

Life is a journey

through no-man's-land

Hear vultures crying hoarsly

and clench your hand tight

Stand firm, smite hard

If you need an example, follow ours

Smite hard, shoot down

until chaos and blood and diesel smoke are all that you see

You wander in headwind where heather ducks strike3

You know that you have to, so now fight on

Mockers gather4 where leaders go

So just keep the line, you chosen few

Stand firm, smite hard

If you need an example, follow ours

Smite hard, shoot down

until chaos and blood and diesel smoke are all that you see

Stand firm, smite hard

If you need an example, follow ours

Smite hard, shoot down

until chaos and blood and diesel smoke are all that you see

1. in the meaning of "formula", "remedy"2. or "weir", "dam"3. according to google translate, this "heather ducks" can also mean "thunder bolts" but I found that meaning in no other dictionary4. lit. "are being gathered"