Insanity Commands - Hail of Bullets

An absurd order given

Sheer astonishment

Organize new defense lines

With shattered regiments

Fight to the last bullet

Never to withdraw

Approval of the death sentence

Berlin’s will is law

Law

Rejecting the final ultimatum

All forbidden to negotiate

A threatening liquidation of an army

Still refusing to capitulate

Leading their men into senseless battle

Ordering men to continue the fight

Comfortable generals in warm barracks

In the open fields their soldiers die

Blood on filthy hands

Insanity commands

Recruiting the starving and the crippled

Crimping the wounded and the diseased

Executing the looting amputated

Closing cruel eyes for their infamy

Praising the emaciated faces

Lots of decorations but no bread

Frozen human flesh amongst the ruins

Cannibals consume the burning dead

The pathos of treason

Blood on filthy hands

Till the last convulsion

Insanity commands