Sinking deep in the heavy clay
Green stems bend in a grey display
Symphytum grows by the rusted rim
Where the light of the sun is dim
Steel in the mud and the thunder rolls
Heavy metal taking all the tolls
Iron in the soil and the water red
Where the wild clover makes a bed
Latin names for the creeping weed
Sown inside of a violent seed
One brass helmet in the dirty rain
Drinking deep from a river of pain
Steel in the mud and the thunder rolls
Heavy metal taking all the tolls
Iron in the soil and the water red
Where the wild clover makes a bed
Watch the root of the iris bloom
Growing out of a soldier's tomb
Nitrogen feeds the emerald blade
In the dirt where the empire played
Hold my hand in the freezing cold
Watch the story of the war unfold
Sift the loam with a shaking hand
Tending gardens in a broken land
Hear the boom of the distant gun
Now the harvest has just begun
Sallow leaves on the willow tree
Rooted deep in the infantry
Steel in the mud and the thunder rolls
Heavy metal taking all the tolls
Iron in the soil and the water red
Where the wild clover makes a bed
Tidy rows of the winter wheat
Underneath where the armies meet
Patience grows in the blackened peat
Until the cycle is finally complete
Steel in the mud and the thunder rolls
Heavy metal taking all the tolls
Iron in the soil and the water red
Where the wild clover makes a bed
Iron in the soil
Iron in the soil
Let it grow
Let it grow
