TORCHBEARER LYRICS

1. Dark Clouds Gathering

High rolling waves
Give away and break
For great beasts
Embodied with steel
Across the vast black sea
A formation of death

High sea fleet and grand fleet
Heading for a battle so certain
Thousands of men at arms
With bravery towards glory or doom

Here standing on deck
On the dreadnoughts and cruisers
With all of the heart filled with fear
Yet strife and determination
Here with the stain of the sea on skin
Standing pale and grim
To clash and crash them down
The pitch black grave

The horizon seem so distant and dark
As the wind chills me to the bone
How many shall die of us that are here now
I must stand the test of battle

High rolling waves
Give away and break
For great beasts
Embodied with steel
Across the vast black sea
A formation of death

Here standing on deck
On the dreadnoughts and cruisers
With all of the heart filled with fear
Yet strife and determination
Here with the stain of the sea on skin
Standing pale and grim
To clash and crash them down
The pitch black grave

2. Last Line Of Defence

So this is the time
I see them closer now
Great ships coming right at us
Now there is no return

The first of canon blasts
The first of hundreds to come
The first of ships been hit
The first of many to go down

Of all that I have seen
And all that I have believed
Nothing has been the bad

All this confusion
And the chaos all around
Still there is no panic
Somehow I still carry on

The first of canon blasts
The first of hundreds to come
The first of ships been hit
The first of many to go down

3. Burial Waters, Deepsome Graves

Another ship there blew
We've been hit here too
If only this was through
Will I die here with you
God I really wish I knew

My brothers a few hundred feet to my right
I see them go down in a burning wreckage of flames

The burning oil on the surface
They burn, they drown

Reign of fire, steel that crumble
In rain of fire, enraged is the sea

Under command of Admiral Beatty
The squadron hunt the enemy south
Taken by surprise, forced to retreat
They did not know we foresaw their first draw

Another ship there blew
We've been hit here too
If only this was through
Will I die here with you

Reign of fire, steel that crumble
In rain of fire, enraged is the sea

4. Swift Turns Of War

After the Germans retreat
Our luck suddenly turned
And hipper made us turn north
Pursued by their dreadnoughts
Somehow our plan did fail
Two battle cruisers been sunk
But we must prevail
Yes, we must prevail

So thus the tables had turned it seemed
Little did they know what was to come
The dreadnoughts close behind us came
Straight into the blaze of Jellicoe's guns

The swift turns of war
Hear the bombardments roar

The swift turns of war
Hear the bombardments
As they now roar

And so the German fleet
Once again in (temporary) defeat
Fleeing for the Baltic Sea
But we won't let that be

The dreadnoughts close behind us came
Straight into the blaze of Jellicoe's guns

5. Battlespawn

Near the port of Great Yarmouth
92 feet of steel deep below
A pride for our Kriegsmarine
Here in august 1915

Commanded by Lieutenant Karl Gross
12 men and I set out for the northeast

With our 18-inch torpedoes and our machine guns
We were ready to repeat what had been done to Harpalyce

Two days in wait, then on Sunday eve
We spotted the Inverlyon, we steered to intercept
We were meant to go aboard and set her alight...

Near the port of Great Yarmouth
92 feet of steel deep below
A pride for our Kriegsmarine
Here in august 1915

Two days in wait, then on Sunday eve
We spotted the Inverlyon, we steered to intercept

With our 18-inch torpedoes and our machine guns
We were ready to repeat what had been done to Harpalyce

6. Where Night Is Total

Now all is lost
We must turn back
They knew our plan
We fell into their trap
Seems the Britts have won
All hope is gone
Under heavy fire
The flames are reaching higher

Just one grave error
And the outcome was set for us
One... grave... error

Now all is lost
We must turn back
They knew our plan
We fell into their trap
Seems the Britts have won
All hope is gone
Under heavy fire
The flames are reaching higher

Here in the end of may
Our fleets saddest day
In our final draw
We go down deep below

In this battle of Jutland
Where our German fleet was crushed
In this battle of Jutland
Where the reign of the sea was lost

7. Sealer Of Fates

A rapid guns blasts
The conning tower burst
Splinters of steel flying inside
Beheading the man beside me

The lieutenant must be dead
Cried deafening my ears
And I see that I bleed
But I don't know from where

We drifted on tide
And all of the shots kept coming
I paniced and screamed
Then we were gone
Ribbled by shellsplinter
Filling with water and smoke
We went down below
Without having fired even a shot

8. The Blunt Weapon

We head back in disgrace
With the failed vision
Of Kaiser Willhelm II
So many lives we've lost

This our blinded weapon
Fell into depths and despair
This nation's pride and honour
Lost and beyond repair

And so many dead
Now on the ocean floor lie

We head back in disgrace
With the failed vision
Of Kaiser Willhelm II
So many lives we've lost

What have we done
All was in vain
All blasts and fire
Drew us insane

With all the men that went down
The cold waters embrace

This our blinded weapon
Fell into depths and despair
This nation's pride and honour
Lost and beyond repair

And so many dead
Now on the ocean floor lie







TORCHBEARER LYRICS