The Price of a Mile

[00:05.41] Throw your soldiers into positions
[00:07.33] Whence there is no escape
[00:08.96] And they will prefer death to flight
[00:12.99]
[00:51.55] Hear the sound of a machinegun
[00:54.35] Hear it echo in the night
[00:57.60] Mortars firing, rains the scene
[01:00.36] Scars the fields that once were green
[01:02.90] It's a stalemate at the frontline
[01:05.60] Where the soldiers rest in mud
[01:08.86] Roads and houses, all is gone
[01:11.79] There's no glory to be won
[01:14.38] Know that many men will suffer
[01:17.02] Know that many men will die
[01:20.22] Half a million lives at stake
[01:23.17] At the fields of Passchendaele
[01:26.16] And as the night falls the general calls
[01:28.94] And the battle carries on and on
[01:32.86] What is the purpose of it all?
[01:37.81] What's the price of a mile?
[01:40.46] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[01:43.18] It's an army on the march
[01:46.76] Long way from home
[01:49.15] Paying the price in young men's lives
[01:52.13] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[01:54.64] It's an army in despair
[01:58.00] Knee deep in mud
[02:00.68] Stuck in a trench with no way out
[02:05.27]
[02:09.14] Thousands of machineguns
[02:11.79] Kept on firing through the night
[02:14.93] Mortars blazed and wrecked the scene
[02:17.58] Gone is the fields that once were green
[02:20.31] Still a deadlock at the frontline
[02:22.97] Where the soldiers die in mud
[02:26.25] Roads and houses since long gone
[02:28.96] Still no glory has been won
[02:31.62] Know that many men has suffered
[02:34.46] Know that many men has died
[02:37.53] Six miles of ground has been won
[02:40.32] Half a million men are gone
[02:42.94] And as the men crawled the general called
[02:46.10] And the killing carried on and on
[02:49.90] What was the purpose of it all?
[02:54.71] What's the price of a mile?
[02:57.62] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[03:00.23] It's an army on the march
[03:03.49] Long way from home
[03:06.28] Paying the price in young men's lives
[03:08.87] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[03:11.45] It's an army in despair
[03:14.80] Knee deep in mud
[03:17.53] Stuck in a trench with no way out
[03:21.87]
[03:32.14] Young men are dying
[03:35.16] They pay the price
[03:38.09] Oh, how they suffer
[03:40.78] So tell me what's the price of a mile?
[03:47.02]
[04:10.50] There's no price for a mile
[04:13.39] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[04:16.16] It's an army on the march
[04:19.34] Long way from home
[04:21.89] Paying the price in young men's lives
[04:24.89] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[04:27.63] It's an army in despair
[04:30.30] Knee deep in mud
[04:33.06] Stuck in a trench with no way out
[04:36.29] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[04:38.67] It's an army on the march
[04:42.29] Long way from home
[04:44.64] Paying the price in young men's lives
[04:47.60] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[04:50.61] It's an army in despair
[04:53.59] Knee deep in mud
[04:55.51] Stuck in a trench with no way out
[04:58.72] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[05:01.40] It's an army on the march
[05:04.73] Long way from home
[05:07.46] Paying the price in young men's lives
[05:10.20] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[05:12.72] It's an army in despair
[05:16.42] Knee deep in mud
[05:18.86] Stuck in a trench with no way out
[05:21.62] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[05:24.27] It's an army on the march
[05:27.60] Long way from home
[05:30.49] Paying the price in young men's lives
[05:33.35] Thousands of feet march to the beat
[05:35.58] It's an army in despair
[05:38.79] Knee deep in mud
[05:41.65] Stuck in a trench with no way out...
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