No Man's Land lyrics

Strewn about a pock-marked land

Snaking, divots, craters kept

As if immense doodle bugs been

Their lairs of dark dire doom

Filled and smoothed with time

Trenchlines they once were

Now only rusty fragments lie

Such important evidentary lines

Created by casted earth and bunkers

The once mud-laden soil abounding

Where vermin and stench stayed

Friend and foe fragmented, fallen

Now sleep beneath a thick pall

A green carpet that mutes all

Trees now shadow emptiness

Once clear cut grazing fire

Their scions stomped in by men

The grim reader's full harvest

Brutal war ensures a bounty

The blood and tear soaked earth

Cold, wet earth, known unkind

No more armed rapport

Nor the ground aerated by shell

Turned by bursting plowshare

Deep furrows no more

Nor cries, moans, or sweat

Now everything is but silence

All hostile priorities forgotten

Here lost in no man's land