[Verse 1]
Twenty million shells
Turn the morning black
Mud where wheat once grew
Bones along the track
Smoke crawls up the hill
Names carved into steel
Craters where a town once stood
Nothing left to feel
[Chorus]
Verdun
We do not yield
Hold the line
Become the shield
Flesh and fire
Earth and steel
Bleed the stones
Refuse to kneel
Verdun
We stand
We fall
Hear our vow above it all
If we break
The world will drown
Verdun
We hold this ground
[Verse 2]
Men who should be home
Frozen in the wire
Letters in a coat
Charred by splintered fire
One more forward rush
Through the poison rain
Every step a stolen breath
Traded into pain
[Chorus]
Verdun
We do not yield
Hold the line
Become the shield
Flesh and fire
Earth and steel
Bleed the stones
Refuse to kneel
Verdun
We stand
We fall
Hear our vow above it all
If we break
The world will drown
Verdun
We hold this ground
[Bridge]
Day on day
The thunder calling (hey!)
Year of night that never ends
Whispered prayers in shattered trenches
“Fight for us
” the dead command
Raise the flag with broken fingers
Raise your voice above the guns
If we vanish in this fever
Still the story marches on (oh!)
[Chorus]
Verdun
We do not yield
Hold the line
Become the shield
Flesh and fire
Earth and steel
Bleed the stones
Refuse to kneel
Verdun
We stand
We fall
Hear our vow above it all
If we break
The world will drown
Verdun
We hold this ground