High Water Mark

High Water Mark Lyrics

Song High Water Mark
Artist Iced Earth
Album The Glorious Burden (Ltd. Digipak Edition) (2004)
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[01:52.233] It was very close, yesterday
[01:56.111] I thought for sure, they would break
[01:59.698] But this attack, that I have planned
[02:03.480] A massive strike across open land
[02:07.265] In the center, they will break
[02:10.509] (Will they break?)
[02:11.649] But plan it well, everything's at stake
[02:15.023] We'll hit 'em hard, not a silent gun
[02:18.643] Before the Infantry's begun
[02:24.688] Execute it well, we risk everything
[02:32.325] It's in Gods hands now
[02:37.372] General Lee, I must tell you straight
[02:41.527] I believe this attack will fail
[02:45.261] No fifteen thousand men ever made
[02:48.945] Will overtake that ridge today
[02:52.809] A mile charge over open ground
[02:56.614] With Yankee cannon gunnin' us down
[02:59.724] We do our duty, we do what we must
[03:03.788] And in my plan, you will trust
[03:07.712] (Thousands die on this day)
[03:10.172] Execute it well, we risk everything
[03:17.301] It's in Gods hands now
[04:13.613] The rebel cannon break the silence
[04:21.394] One hundred fifty guns make up their cannonade
[04:28.630] They must destroy the Union Center
[04:36.323] Before the Infantry can launch their grand assault
[04:44.010] The Yankees are returning fire
[04:49.089] (The Earth shakes violently)
[04:51.577] In Washington D.C. Lincoln
[04:54.458] Feels the earth shake
[04:59.721] What happens here this day
[05:03.660] The fate of this nation
[05:07.128] In the balance it will hang
[05:11.161] Consumed with the pain
[05:14.883] The courage of the blue
[05:18.824] The valor of the grey
[05:22.467] So very sad but true
[05:26.177] Consumed with the pain
[05:32.866] The Virginians are the chosen
[05:40.144] In wait behind the trees on Seminary Ridge
[05:47.737] Longstreet's slow to give the orders
[05:55.066] The lines emerged a mile, fifteen thousand men
[06:02.674] The charge begins in all its grandeur
[06:07.882] (To the copse of trees)
[06:10.286] For many of these men
[06:13.007] They know it is their last
[06:18.592] The slaughter now ensues
[06:22.531] Bodies fall like rain
[06:26.146] They valiantly pursue
[06:29.865] Yet doomed to remain
[06:33.414] At the double quick they charge
[06:37.342] The canister rips through them
[06:40.821] To the mouth of hell they march
[06:44.598] Glory, the only gain
[08:51.368] We're almost there my boys
[08:54.770] I've never served with finer
[08:58.566] We must push forward boys
[09:01.743] And bayonet the Yankee tyrants
[09:05.841] To the copse of trees we charge
[09:09.819] To crush the Union Center
[09:13.598] And when they turn and run
[09:16.822] An open road leads us to freedom
[10:05.106] It's over now we are retreating
[10:09.210] I never thought that we'd be beaten
[10:13.119] All this blood is on my hands
[10:16.772] The thousands dead due to my plan
[10:20.685] I am responsible, all of it is my fault
[10:27.979] I thought us invincible
[10:31.778] Is this gods will, after all?
[10:35.467] I look across this blood soaked land
[10:39.402] All this blood is on my hands
[10:43.054] God forgive me, please forgive me
[10:50.479] It's all my fault
[10:54.387] The blood is on my hands
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