[00:44.04]They crossed over the border the hour before dawn
[00:50.70]Moving in lines through the day
[00:56.35]Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay
[01:03.76]Waiting for orders we held in the wood - word from the front never came
[01:15.80]By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away
[01:23.62]Ah, softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees
[01:30.54]Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our knees
[01:38.45]And all that I ever was able to see
[01:45.83]The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the smoke on the breeze
[02:01.42]All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine
[02:07.91]Smolensk and Viasma soon fell
[02:13.40]By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel
[02:20.60]Closer and closer to Moscow they came - riding the wind like a bell
[02:32.77]General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill
[02:40.10]Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads
[02:47.31]Gluing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with snow
[02:55.14]And all that I ever was able to see
[03:02.57]The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the snow on the breeze
[03:39.69]In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the winter
[03:46.94]Falling back before the gates of Moscow,
[03:49.44]Standing in the wings like an avenger
[03:54.18]And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the forest
[04:01.84]Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts, growing like a promise
[04:09.42]You'll never know, you'll never know
[04:10.98]Which way to turn, which way to look, you'll never see us
[04:16.84]As we're stealing through the blackness of the night,
[04:19.73]You'll never know, you'll never hear us
[04:24.23]And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming
[04:31.56]The morning roads leads to Stalingrad, and the sky is softly humming
[04:50.19]Two broken Tigers on fire in the night flicker their souls to the wind
[05:01.56]We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin
[05:08.64]It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun
[05:14.96]At home it will almost be spring
[05:20.72]The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin
[05:28.13]Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground
[05:35.21]The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down
[05:42.52]And all that I ever was able to see
[05:50.57]The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream
[06:27.23]I'm coming home, I'm coming home,
[06:28.93]Now you can taste it in the wind, the war is over
[06:34.74]And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the border
[06:41.80]
[06:43.91]When I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner
[06:49.56]"They only held me for a day, a lucky break", I say;
[06:52.64]They turn and listen closer
[06:56.96]I'll never know, I'll never know
[06:58.86]Why I was taken from the line and all the others
[07:04.62]To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia
[07:11.44]And it's cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen
[07:19.13]And the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming
[07:26.68]And I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers "Never"
[07:33.92]And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on forever