HAIL OF BULLETS LYRICS

1. Liberators

Trans-Atlantic airliners, groundbreaking design
Diverse heavy duty taskmachine
Aerial Reconnaissance, maritime patrol
Detecting and attacking submarines

Troops or cargo transport, delivering the fuel
Main Virtue: Long operating range
New high-tech equipment, destructive deathbird
Liberator B-24J

Conglomerated squadrons
Motioned by the alarm
Rotating propellers
Airborne of the swarm

A high altitude mission
Above enemy ground
Messerschmidts approaching
Turrets firing rounds
Acknowledging all targets
The industrial heart
Gunners fighting bandits
As the bombings start

Cities cracking in tornadic fires
Installations bursting in the blaze
Burning asphalt, huge raging inferno
Salute the fallen, then return to base

2. Warsaw Rising

Trapped between two despots the cry for battle calls
Soviets at the Vistula the Hun inside the walls
Resistance a tradition Poland to be free
Finishing oppression regaining liberty
Claiming back their territory bloodshed for such precious land
Withdrawing hated enemy the final struggle is at hand

Armia Krajowa Patriots mobilised
Many unarmed soldiers weapons improvised
National rebellion expect to last one week
Primitive devices guerrilla techniques
Bravery pride and heroism honour and determination
Against tanks and artillery dying hard battalions

The Soviets massacred thousands in Katyn so they know precisely what to expect
Decades more of brutal submission tyrant Stalin stabs them in the back
Abandoned by the feeble western allies responsible for all the brave who died
Whilst their brothers freed Monte Cassino they surrendered with their heads up high

3. Destroyer

He spent his life a silent sentinel for all to fear
He walks, he talks, he thinks, he feels but no one dare go near
He takes in all he sees, nothing escapes his gaze
And when he strikes, he strikes for right, a glorious sight

Destroyer He is in town

He came to be from a grand mistake, a mystical charade
Created to decide the good and bring repercussive aid
As awareness filled his fame, he examined those who leered
Then he cleaved the air with his fiery stare, rend all those there

A day will come, you'll be drawn into the centre of your town
And come upon a mass of steel that cracks the very ground
Prepare to meet your judge, don't think to run away
Just pray your face holds no disgrace for the deadly ace

Destroyer He is in town
You better stay out of his way
He is going to kick your ass
Destroyer

4. Red Wolves Of Stalin

Plundering SS-units
Prisoners rot in camps
The old and weak were shot
Defeatist got hanged
Nationwide extortion
No one can survive
A starving population
Miserably dies

Silently they disappeared
at night
Joined the other hungry
wolves to fight
To slay and maim and kill
the fascist beast
The cutthroat invaders
of their East

Blowing up the bridges
Undermine the streets
Attacking the convoys
Leave cold dead German meat
Sabotage the railways
Behind enemy lines
Bombing army transports
Destroy telephone wires

A merciless strike
from out of the dark
Witness the Russian Partisan's
trademark
All they have
is their hate to feed on
Ambush another enemy patrol

Hiding in the forest
Or villages nearby
Like the pack they are prowling
And only hunt at night
Lying in the slush
Buried deep in snow
Always facing death
Ready for the blow

Marching, creeping, waiting,
Snipers in the trees
Aiming, shooting, killing
These wolves will have their feast

5. Nachthexen

Summer 1941
Instructors start to train
A night bomber squadron
The 588th
Regiment of women
From pilots to mechanics
Claim their role in history
These aviatrixes

Polikarpov biplanes
Providing ground support
Temperature plummeting
To -54
Climbing the dark cloudened sky
Engaged in dog-fights
Up to 18 missions
In one single night

High above Rodina
For the umpteenth raid
Female fighter aces
Send their bombs away
Through the deafening sirens
Struck by heavy flak
Although riddled with bullets
All made it safely back

Shrieking Madonnas
Lead spitting banshees
Baptize them in fire
Iron Valkyries
Incoming Nachthexen
Set the ground ablaze
Push the throttle up again
And hear their screams of pain

6. The Crucial Offensive

Hell at the South-West Front
Near Kletskaja village
Katyusha launchers introducing
Voronov's barrage
A hail of 80 minutes lasting
Screaming shrapnel steel
Grinding stunned Romanians
In disorder they flee

Falling on soil that never was theirs
Mercilessly chased by unknown heirs
Dying eyes meet furious Soviet wrath
Cautiously determined, striking hard

Meanwhile from the Donfront
Comes the second assault
A large number of forces
Impossible to halt
Chaos is complete
As a third attack begins
Pincer movements leading all
Towards the Kalatsj bridge

MGs rip and tear through hardened flesh
Massive seem the dark tank silhouettes
Invulnerable deadly T-34
Hear the Stormoviks in the sky roar

Essential coordination
As important as speed
Don't give Fritz the time
To get back on his frozen feet
The brave heroic 62nd
Of Tsjukov stood its ground
Between Don and Volga
Soldiers bodies mount

Now surrounding according to plan
330,000 men
Left to die without ammo or food
The crucial offensive of WW II







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