Nanking

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]

Sadistic soldiers of the Rising Sun

1937's when the rape had begun

The ancient city fell under imperial rule

By an engine of war and lust, savage and cruel

Assembly line efficiency of killing machines

Unbridled fury of the sick and obscene

Systematic sexual degradation

The more perverse the greater exaltation

[Pre-Chorus]

Nowhere to hide

Nowhere to run

They turned the waters

Of the Yangtze red with blood

Cast aside

And brutalized

Terrific horror made to terrorize

[Chorus]

Bestial and violent

Six weeks of suffering

So black was the day

They marched through the gates

Their fate was beckoning

[Verse 2]

Tanks ran over men nailed to boards

Decapitations with an officer's sword

Gang rape of women, both the young and the old

Frozen to death in waters ice cold

Disembowelment, some are buried alive

Suicide's preferred for those who survive

The stench of corpses everywhere in the streets

Dogs feast on the rotting meat

[Pre-Chorus]

Nowhere to hide

Nowhere to run

They turned the waters

Of the Yangtze red with blood

Cast aside

And brutalized

Terrific horror made to terrorize

[Chorus]

Bestial and violent

Six weeks of suffering

So black was the day

They marched through the gates

Their fate was beckoning

[Post-Chorus]

It was the rape of Nanking

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]

Thousands forced into prostitution

So many years and still no restitution

The carnage of Carthage so easily outdone

Add all the blood you get 1200 tons

Massacre removed from history books

No mention of men hung from iron hooks

All counter to the rules of war

They made a city an army's whore

[Pre-Chorus]

Nowhere to hide

Nowhere to run

They turned the waters

Of the Yangtze red with blood

Cast aside

And brutalized

Terrific horror made to terrorize

[Chorus]

Bestial and violent

Six weeks of suffering

So black was the day

They marched through the gates

Their fate was beckoning

[Post-Chorus]

It was the rape of Nanking