September's dawn breaks with thunder and steel Polish soil trembles beneath the wheel The fire of the howitzers tears the morning sky Mother clutches her son, both asking why Boots march forward, drowning out the screams Shattered cities, shattered dreams The youth of nations fed to the machine For fading empires and madmen's schemes What are we dying for? Blood soaking foreign shores Brothers killing brothers in the name of flags and lies DEAD AND FEAR FOR WHAT?! Millions in the mud and madness DEAD AND FEAR FOR WHAT?! All this madness, all this sadness The earth consumes its sons again No victors walk away—just ghosts and pain Stalingrad winter, frozen breath and bone Normandy beaches painted red, boys far from home Cities burning, World in flames No one remembers the forgotten names Auschwitz smoke rises to a silent God While generals move pieces, the innocent trod Through barbed wire nightmares, through trenches deep Six years of slaughter, humanity weeps In the quiet after gunfire fades We count the cost in unmarked graves Sixteen million soldiers cold Ten million stories never told FOR WHAT?! FOR WHAT?! The propaganda, the poisoned pride FOR WHAT?! FOR WHAT?! A generation crucified! DEAD AND FEAR FOR WHAT?! Empires are sinking into madness DEAD AND FEAR FOR WHAT?! All the hatred, all the sadness The lesson carved in blood and gravestones War makes widows, war makes madness The last survivor closes his eyes Still haunted by his brothers' cries In the silence, one question remains... *For what... for what... for what...*
