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Stormwitch original Puppet in a Play, from their 2004 album Witchcraft.

When I'd attained the age of seventeen

My parents send me to a cadet school

All my fellow students were like me

Coming from distinguished homes

They treated us hard, but not unfairly

They drilled us and we learned to stand straight

We looked so fine in our uniforms

And our parents were so proud of us

We went to many fancy dress balls

And met the sisters of our fellow friends

And also women that we shouldn't know

But these were things that we kept for ourselves

We didn't have the faintest notion

What fighting on the battleground means

In those days everything was glorious

And the departure was not easy for us

The rain whips my face and like struck by lightning

My comrade falls near by my side

I creep over him, I pull him back -- hopefully he is alive

Through smoke, fire and blood, through all that hellfire

I carry him safe to our camp

But in my excitement I lost attention

That something has taken his soul

Was it worth the price -- this human sacrifice

I have tried it with might and rain

Alas, but I had to underlay

Against the Death everything's in vein

I was just a puppet in a play

I'm wounded and sick

My comrade beside me

Is wounded and struggles with death

I try to help him as best I can

All in this horror and pain

In blaze, blood and danger with kindred emotions

I try to ease his mind

But deep dark shadows that move like monsters

Shake him and time him away

Was it worth the price

This human sacrifice

I have tried it with might and rain

Alas, but I had to underlay

Against the Death everything's in vein

I was just a puppet in a play, in a play

Now war is over but I'm still in service

I survived in this horrible dream

I miss my brother, who deserted the colours

He wrote me, he is alive

By night fall they called me for an execution

But, oh God, what did I see

These clear, proud eyes were the eyes of my brother

I close my eyes as I shoot

Was it worth the price

This human sacrifice

I have tried it with might and rain

Alas, but I had to underlay

Against the Death everything's in vein

I was just a puppet in a play, in a play