Roads To Moscow Lyrics

Roads To Moscow lyrics

Roads to Moscow

 

 They crossed over the border the hour before dawn

 Moving in lines through the day

 Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay

 Waiting for orders we held in the wood - word from the front never came

 By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away

 

 Ah, softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees

 Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our knees

 And all that I ever was able to see

 The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the smoke on the breeze

 

 All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine

 Smolensk and Viasma soon fell

 By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel

 Closer and closer to Moscow they came - riding the wind like a bell

 General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill

 

 Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads

 Gluing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with
snow

 And all that I ever was able to see

 The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the snow on the breeze

 

 In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the winter

 Falling back before the gates of Moscow, 

 Standing in the wings like an avenger

 And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the forest

 Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts, growing like a promise

 You'll never know, you'll never know 

 Which way to turn, which way to look, you'll never see us

 As we're stealing through the blackness of the night, 

 You'll never know, you'll never hear us

 And the evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming

 The morning roads leads to Stalingrad, and the sky is softly humming

 

 Two broken Tigers on fire in the night flicker their souls to the wind

 We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin

 It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun

 At home it will almost be spring

 The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin

 

 Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground

 The old men and children they send out to face us, they can't slow us down

 And all that I ever was able to see

 The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream

 

 I'm coming home, I'm coming home, 

 Now you can taste it in the wind, the war is over

 And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the
border

 And now they ask me of the time 

 When I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner

 "They only held me for a day, a lucky break", I say; 

 They turn and listen closer

 I'll never know, I'll never know 

 Why I was taken from the line and all the others

 To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia

 And it's cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen

 And the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming

 And I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers "Never"

 And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on forever