A/N: It's Rememberance Day today, so I decided to have a song from the musical The Front, called Fromelles, being sung by the characters of a certain franchise: Valkyria Chronicles, with Richard of course. The characters singing the song are Faldio, Richard, Welkins, Alicia, Rosie, and Largo
The opening of the song plays, as beams of light appear on each of the singers of the song, which are in a line, with Richard, dressed in a Galilean Shocktrooper army uniform, in the centre, and Welkin, Largo and Faldio on the left of him, respectively by position, and Alica, Rosie, and Isara on the right of him, as they stand still, before hoisting their weapons, and marching on the spot, as the scenery of Bruhl appear around them, as pictures of the many battles that Squad 7 have fought in appear periodically in view, before they stop, as the vocal parts begin.
Richard:
Hours went past, as the rain drenched his clothes
With the sounds of the blasts, in his ears.
Must bring strength through the field
As he waited to hear the signal to charge when it came
(With Faldio, Welkin and Largo)
Slowly the sounds of the guns came to rest
And he knew that the morn' has approached
Welkin:
He pulled a scarf to shield the wind
And hide his eyes from the men to his side
(With Alicia, Rosie and Isara)
Oh how the hours dragged on through the night
(Solo)
When you're cold and wet and pained
And the world doesn't care
(With Alicia, Rosie and Isara)
If you're there in the morning
(Solo)
No-one even knows you name.
There is a piano solo, as the scenery around them changes to the streets of Randgriz, before it turns into the ruined version of the same city, as the singer march on the spot, while firing their weapons in different places, before they then stop, as the song continues.
Faldio:
The hours become agony
As he waited for the sound. (Rest of the singers: As the time approached, he kept on the Sommes waiting, and with the fear)
The hours become agony (Rest of the singers: what may happen, and what they are waiting for and it was easy to tell them what we were fighting for, the land that we were fighting for)
He waited for the sound
The hours become agony (Rest of the singers: He wouldn't stand a chance and)
He waited for the sound (Rest of the singers: Silence became the sound and we had, to our mound and they are way too heartful)
Soon the second instrumental part is heard, as the group continues to march, as images of their fallen comrades appear, in mounds or graves, and pictures of their victory also appear, and they continue their battle with their 'enemies'
Everyone:
Over the flak and the ash
We come to the line
But the gunfire was fevered, and slow
And we live there is heck, with his friends to the skies.
Largo:
He was granted his wish, a wish that he made
In the years before
A wish he made he made everyday.
Soon the group stop, as the pictures of the dead appear more often, and they find themselves on a desolate battlefield, with the many signs of war appearing, wrecks of tanks and many lost weapons scattered across the ground
Alicia:
In the hours that followed
The battle pressed on
But the losses of life numbered high
So many souls rose to heaven
The flesh stayed in hell
Nameless laying the field of the Somme
(With Isara)
And in the years he has enlisted
No one listened to his cries
Why have you forsaken me?
Would you please set me free?
He wasn't there in the mourning
Isara:
No-one even knows he's gone.
The group then bow their heads in grievance, as the last notes of the song play, and the scene fades with a caption:
The Battle of the Sommes had 1000000 casualties on both sides
Out of the 331871 Australians who have enlisted, 62000 were killed and 153000 were wounded.
128000 New Zealanders enlisted in the war, but out of them, 16000 were killed, and 42000 were wounded.
The Galilean Civil War and Galilean-Empire War had taken many more lives.
This song is a memorial to both to the dead and fallen in our world, and the dead in Valkyria Chronicle
Most loved sister, Isara
Most loved friend, Faldio
Both dead from the war.
May their souls rest in peace.
A/N: This isn't a perfect copy of the song's lyrics, since they are not available to me, and written from hearing the song, down to writing it here. So if anyone got a actual copy of this song's lyric, it would help a lot to give me a link to it, please.
Lest we forget...
