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through the Mortar and Artillery Barrage

the Barman at the Hotel Nationale

says Ice in the Couloirs is turning Black

buried in Lead, frightened by the Stars

iced Walls were high and flat

and through the Rows of Trees and Lines

barbed Wire, Maps and Lakes basalt Pillars on a different Time

Tour Rouge - the Boches are still coming

Tour Noir - don't talk me 'bout Blasphemy

Grey Slabs - the Mountains of my Fear

Fort Mort Homme and Aldebaran

worn Codes and Signs unknown

Spider Gods have lost Control

unauthorised Assault on Everest

I watch them all as they fall

Somme, Leschaux, Quetzal, Arras

I can't come down, I won't go back

Verdun, Xolotl, Ypres, Dolent

I won't go back down

Tour Rouge - the Boches are still coming

Tour Noir - don't talk me 'bout Blasphemy

Grey Slabs - the Mountains of my Fear

Fort Mort Homme and Aldebaran

see now, Ursa Major - Mallory and Irvine disappearing into a Cloud

see now, smoking Mirror - Tezcatlipoca will teach me how

see now, deformed Twin - a one-legged Gentleman

see now, go to Light and Warmth - mechanised Warfare against Tenochtitlan

see now, seven Snakes - and even at the End, even at the End

see now, southern 400 - he was better on his Legs than I am now

see now, we're his Slaves - I was scything down the Boches

see now, our Lord the Flayed - the front Line has broken

see now, see now

and when the Procession comes

Tour Rouge, Tour Noir, Grey Slabs

and the Kronprinz crowned in Bones

coming down from the Pyramids

Angels fanning across Duaoumont