In from the Futile Fields

Do you hear the leaden knell at daybreak?
Do you know whose strife is at an end?
Can you bear this fare-well one more morning?
When will the black cloud next descend?
One more soldier back from war
One more soldier back from war
Do you hear the leaden knell at daybreak?
Do you know whose strife is at an end?
One more soldier back from war
One more soldier back from war

From the depths of disaster
From the depths of cold fear
From the fields of foul fever
They have come home, but are no more

Do you hear the bugles' wanton calling?
They're calling you to join with them
Can you feel the bells ring out new horrors?
Brazen judges who condemn
One more soldier off to war
One more soldier off to war
Do you hear the bugles' wanton calling?
They're calling you to join with them
One more soldier off to war
One more soldier off to war

To the depths of disaster
To the depths of cold fear
To the fields of high terror
Where so many had gone before

As the storm's blown over, drums roll closer
As time is long in the futile fields
Troops are coming in for more
Troops are coming in for more
No more soldiers off to war
No more soldiers off to war
No more soldiers off to war
No more soldiers, no more soldiers, no more soldiers off … to war