Music by Claude-Michel Scho:nberg

Original French lyrics by Alain Boublil

Original English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer



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Did you see them during Akdor's flight,

Subordinates, warriors, who didn't last the night?

Did you see them lying where they died,

Crushed to death, stabbed through their hearts, or shreddered down and fried?

Did you see them lying side by side?



Who'll survive you? No one ever will,

Troops die out from under you, you keep on fighting still.

There's no diff'rence, you're all in the game,

One who's spared in battle will waste slowly all the same...

Yet you feel no envy, only shame.



Nothing changes, nothing ever will,

Ev'ry year another war, another race to kill.

Same old story, what's the use of words?

What's the use of morals, if they only make it worse,

Burning, burning, burning, burning, burning through the worlds?



Burning, burning, burning through the years...

Decades from now, you will still be following the Yeerks,

Using all means to achieve your ends --

However long this war lasts, you won't die till it ends.

And you'll all be enslaved when it ends!