is a hard rock anti-war song. It tells about a volunteer who joins to fight for his country. In permanent fear of dying he experiences the horror of the battle. By the end of the battle he is fatally wounded, because he is not cold-blooded enough to kill his enemy eye to eye. But his enemy is. During the last seconds of his life he feels no pain, but hears the birds sing and has a feeling as if someone caresses him. The refrain "Why did you join?" with female background voices really gets under the skin.
Je chantais: "La la la ...",
a soldier fully armed and marching in the night.
The sun no longer shining, the birds had stopped to sing,
remembered at that moment: You shall love your enemies.
Dreaming still of justice or what I thought it means,
in line with all those heroes for a nation's idleness.
My heart without emotions I thought I had no fear.
Oh God, those clouds of evil, and the battlefield burns.
In the early morning rain the atrocity began:
The whole earth was exploding, and oceans of blood changed
the trembling ground into red,
hearing the wounded's endless cries for mercy and release.
Why did you, why did you it? Why did you join?
Je chantais: "La la la",
through an awful wall of fire I faced my enemy.
I looked into his eyes, but, oh God! I couldn't shoot.
His blood was so much colder, that's why his trigger moved.
I smiled at him, my eyes, they didn't lie.
But he bowed his head in shame, my soul was crying: "Why?",
when the bullet found me. Pourquoi, warum?
Oh God, those clouds of evil, and the battlefield burns.
My eyes were full of tears, but I didn't feel the pain.
I felt someone caressed me, and the birds began to sing a dreamlike melody.
And the sun began to shine again for the last time for me.
