When we set out on this journey
There were no doubts in our minds
We set our eyes to the distance
We would find what we would find

We took courage from our numbers
What we sought we did not fear
Sometimes we'd glimpse a shadow falling
The shadow would disappear

But our thoughts kept returning
To something the boy said
As we turned to go
He said you'll never see our faces again

You'll be food for a carrion crow
Every step we took today
Our thoughts would always stray
From the wind on the moor so wild

To the words of the captain's child
Something the boy said
In the circles we made with our fires
We talked of the pale afternoon

The clouds were like dark riders
Flying on the face of the moon
We spoke our fears to the captain
And asked what his son could know

For we would never have marched so far
To be food for a crow
Every step we took today
Our thoughts would always stray

From the wind on the moor so wild
To the words of the captain's child
Something the boy said
When I awoke this morning

The sun's eye was red as blood
The stench of burning corpses
Faces in the mud
Am I dead or am I living?

I'm too afraid to care, I'm too afraid to know
I'm too afraid to look behind me
At the feast of the crow
We spoke our fears to the captain

And asked what his son could know
For we would never have marched so far
To be food for a crow
Something the boy said