| Wounded entertainers diggin' in at flanders
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| Breathe in the strangers and dream of the frail nurse
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| That sings the Marseillaise
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| At night
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| Softly folding blankets tight
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| And i get you it’s hard, i get you it’s hard, marchons and marchons, monsieur
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| The germans wore grey and you wore white
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| All the brits were rarin' for a fight
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| I get you it’s hard, I’m shocked and i’m scarred
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| Thats how they get ya, there’s a dead note floating in the measures
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| There’s a punk kid coughin' on the stretchers
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| There’s a weeping swell of arkansas for arkansas
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| That’s how they get you
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| And i hope darling i don’t upset you
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| But the pale faced doctor knows she sings for all of us
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| And darn it sir, she calls for us now
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| The germans wore grey and you wore blue
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| And all the bougies all stared at you
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| Bedside confessions where doctors hit paydirt
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| And gabe gets on the faders and says hes gonna blow my mind
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| Pan the german front hard right
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| Bring the howitzers up soft in the night till the trenches alight
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| Thats how they get ya
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| And i hope darling i don’t upset ya |
| There’s a hun deep inside all the heifers
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| There’s a weeping swell of arkansas, for arkansas
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| And i’m out of excuses, there’s a form that i’m using
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| It’s worn, it’s torn, and the eyes are threadbare gone
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| I’m out of excuses |