Iced Earth - High Water Mark Lyrics
It was very close, yesterday,I thought for sure, that they would breakBut this attack, that I have plannedA massive strike across open land.In the center, they will breakPlan it well, everythings at stakeWe'll hit em hard, not a silent gun.Before the infantry's begunExecute it well...we risk everything..its in Gods hands now..General Lee, I must tell you straightThat I beleive this attack will fail.No 15,000 men ever made,will overtake that ridge today.A wild charge over open ground,with yankee cannon gunning down,we do our duty, we do what we mustAnd in my plan, you will trust(Thooouusands diiie...)Execute it well...we risk everything..its in Gods hands now..The rebel cannons break the silence!One hundred fifty gunsmen on the cannons thereWe must destroy the union centerBefore the infantry can launch their grand assultThe yankees are returning fireWe must in turn fight its gods will that we are here this daay!What happens here this dayThe fate of a nationIn the balance it will hangConsumed with the painThe COURAGE of the blue!The VALOUR of the gray!So very sad but trueConsumed with the pain..The virginians are then chosenThey went behind the trees on Cemetery RidgeThey must be slow to give the ordersTHe light emerged from my own 15,000 menThe charge begins in all its granduerFor many are these men, they know it is their lastThe slaughter now ensues, bodies fall like rainThey valiantly ensue, though doomed to remainAt the double quick they chargeThe cannon still rips through themTo the mouth of hell they marchGlory the only gain![Cannon Scene]We're almost there my boysI never thought we'd fireWe must push forward boysAnd bayonet the yankee tyrantsThrough the depths of trees we chargeTo cross the union centerAnd when they turn and runI hope they'll drop and beg for freedom![Battle Ensues, Orchestra Solo, With people dying in the background]It's over now we are retreatingI never thought that we'd be beatenAll this blood is on my handsThe thousands dead due to my planI am responsibleAll of this is my faultI thought us invincibleIs this gods will, after all?I look across this blood soaked landAll their blood is on my handsGod forgive mePlease forgive me...ITS ALL MY FAULT!!!Their blood is on my haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaands.... 
