The frontier we’ve affronted wants to fight back

Not me personally, I know, but soon they’re going to attack

I know. I just know it, that’s why I’m stationed here now

Us soldiers standing in a line waiting around to die

If I make it out alive, they’ll award us and expect us to bow

But in the meantime, bodies will soar and bullets will fly

Then we’ll sink to the ground which we’ll be buried beneath 

Become one with what we’ve walked all over, the dirt underneath

The land does not appreciate our desecration

And yet I fight, caring little about my nation 

I know. I just know it, our country will be overtaken 

The Eternal Ruler in the East is rising in power

More than abilities he’s rumored to possess, if I’m not mistaken

He has lived through sunshine, moonlight, and many rainshower

Various wives, yet so far only two children accounted for

One a disappointment, the other always in search of something more

It is a wonder to me why an immortal ruler would need an heir

But perhaps there’s something there which I’m unaware

What would I know. I wouldn’t know, much nowadays outside of war

Now I’m standing as their army approaches, wearing strange hats and pointed jackets

The first shot from their side rings out and the shirt of a man to the left of me has tore

He’s bleeding out now, they have made his casket

There is no time, we charge now, and more gunfire erupts out

We duck when we can, I’m behind a tree when I hear my friend shout:

“We need to fall back now!” 

It’s a losing battle, I check to see if they’ll allow

Me to run. I try to run, further into what territory remains

We are being infected by the shiny soldiers, golden that we condemn

I am too far away from my men, running back to them I refrain

Instead I head further into the forest. I wonder if after all of this I’ll look like them

Attempting to evade capture can only go on for so long

Before they get me, torture me ‘til death, or force me to follow along