Foreign Skies Songtext
von The Dreadnoughts

We are the men of sweat and steel
We are the men the world denies
So now we walk abandoned fields
Beneath these foreign skies

We′re gonna join the bitter test
And though there's some will break and fall
Where there′s nothing here but happiness
And duty's restless call

So it calls, but only to the chosen
To the boys who landed at Liege

Meet me at the station, in the glory of the sun
Into the arms by which the world was won

Come on and wipe away your tears
And the memories bright and gay
The laughter of unclouded years
Will slowly bleed away


Staring at the stars above
Underneath these foreign skies
We've never been so happy love
In all our goddamned lives

All our lives, have been for nought and wasted
All our lives, soon to be redeemed

Meet me at the station with a banner and a grin
We′ll watch the sun go down on old Berlin

And when it was done, and we′d carried the day
Well, I watched her life's blood go slipping away
And I stared down, into her cold blue eyes
Sweet mother Mary, deliver your grace
Deliver us all from the look on her face
And the screams, the long and desperate sighs

All our lives have been a cruel secret
All our lives, a tender age in bloom

So, I drink this final cup and rest this weary head
And watch the waters rising up to wash away the dead
And when we′re rid of this disease, and we have won the prize
I never will return to these foreign skies
Foreign skies, foreign skies