Sabaton - Angels Calling (Lyrics English & Deutsch)

World War I or the First World War lasted from 1914 to 1918 and brought death to about 17 million men. The two opposing alliances were the Central Powers (the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, later also the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria) and the Entente Powers together with their Allies (Great Britain, France and Russia, later also, among others, Italy, Portugal, Japan and the United States). In 1918 there were 25 nations plus their colonies (in which lived in total 1.35 billion people, about three-quarters of the world's population at that time) at war.
The Treaty of Versailles after the Allied victory laid the foundation-stone for the Second World War two decades later.

CAUTION!
I won't tolerate any racist, discriminatory or in any other form inappropriate comments! This song neither glorifies war, nor National Socialism, but should be considered as a historical work.
"No, we don't glorify anything, we just tell stories about things that have happened." (Rikard Sundén, Sabaton)

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Der Erste Weltkrieg dauerte von 1914 bis 1918 und forderte je nach Quelle rund 17 Millionen Menschenleben. Die beiden kriegsführenden Parteien waren die Mittelmächte (Deutschland und Österreich-Ungarn, später zusätzlich das Osmanische Reich und Bulgarien) und die Entente-Mächte mit deren Alliierten (Großbritannien, Frankreich und Russland, später zusätzlich unter anderem Italien, Portugal, Japan und die USA). 1918 befanden sich 25 Staaten und deren Kolonien, in denen insgesamt 1,35 Milliarden Menschen lebten, also etwa drei Viertel der damaligen Erdbevölkerung, im Kriegszustand.
Mit dem nach dem Sieg der Alliierten festgelegten Friedensvertrag von Versailles wurde der Grundstein für den Zweiten Weltkrieg zwei Jahrzehnte später gelegt.

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Ich dulde keine rassistischen, diskriminierenden oder in sonstiger Form unangemessene Kommentare! Dieses Lied verherrlicht weder Krieg, noch den Nationalsozialismus, sondern ist rein historisch zu betrachten!
"Nein, wir verherrlichen nichts, wir erzählen nur Geschichten über Dinge, die passiert sind." (Rikard Sundén, Sabaton)

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[JanKowalski-gvol]

"War is worse than hell as in hell there are no innocent people."
A quote i saw that would fit here.

[till]

My great-grandfather died at Isonzo, or at the river Po. His body was never retrieved. Only his dog tag by an Italian soldier was brought to Budapest. As my grandfather told me, the italian men were asking the citizens if they knew his family. It took him to find them for more than a week. That dog tag was lsot during ww2, as my grandfathers family had to flee the city to the countryside.
His memory will never be forgotten.

[andro]

The quote at the beginning ''You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees'' combined with the image of destroyed, burnt trees and intense music is so eerie, always gives me the chills.

[cutekrizu]

a quote I heard from a friend, "the worst thing about the first world war was not the death toll, or the destruction, or the toppeling of empires, but the fact that it was the first"

[Animefan]

"I died in hell - They called it Passchendaele"

WW1 is probably the best example on how fucked up humanity can be in it´s treatment of life.

The sheer lack of reason in sending all these men to their death is just insane.

That´s what always gets me with WW1. Ww2 and the holocaust were pure malice and a brilliant example of how ugly humanity can get when there´s enough hatred.
But WW1, WW1 was pure and utter nihilism with no point whatsoever. Just imagine it, bloody 100 meters littered in corpses because both sides just wanted to get another meter of ground for their own.

[Amber-iwzh]

The worst part about WWI is that chances are most Veterans probably lived to see WWII

[jarrettwattenburger]

Has anyone else noticed that pretty much every song about World War One is also about the horror of war, as opposed to World War Two songs being about soldiers' glory and events?

[lenax]

the quote of Kaiser Willem 'you will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees' touches me the most, it simplifies a ruler, sending off young men to their deaths, by false hope of surviving.

[Wolvens_fate]

"Losing friends"
"To artillery shells"
"At the break of dawn"
Gave me chills

[hisokamorow]

"Dream of heaven, angels are calling your name" in any other context it sounds peaceful and joyful. But when you put it in this setting it translates to a dark "Seeking death, each bullet has your name"

[dagalealtd]

Who else is hyped for the new sabaton album the Great War?! #July19

[edkopik]

once the war to end all wars
now only the first chapter of something much more terrible
what a sick joke

[heinzthorvald]

Yesterday, July 28 was the anniversary 102 of the beginning of the WW1. RIP for all those mens of two sides who died and were wounded in that conflict

[SuperWigMaker]

The violin part in the beginning is awesome!

[epgbros]

Get the wounded after dark, left alone in no mans land. That line sent shivers down my spine. The thought, the insanity, the way they could just get stuck behind.

[Dreadstealer]

I want to thank PiscatorLager for uploading these great songs and also for giving us the historical events that influenced Sabaton on writing those songs 

[EyebrowsGaming]

Myself, my dad, uncle and cousin travelled to Belgium in 2014 for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. You hear the stories, you learn about it on television and in school, but nothing prepares you for the cemeteries. How big they are, and how MANY there are. My great great uncle Fred Kirk was killed at Ploegsteert Wood, age 17. We found the memorial that held his name, as his body was. Never found.

If you ever find time in your life, travel to Ypres, stand at the Menin Gate and listen to the Last Post. A moment for millions.

[dragonlord]

One of the crazy things about WWI is that it is not one of the top 5 most destructive conflict, being topped by WWII (obviously), but also the Mongol conquest of China, the Taiping Rebellion in China, the Manchu conquest of China, the conquests by Tamerlane in the Middle east, and only then do we get to WWI. But what set WWI apart and made it so bad was not the casualties but the lack of things to take your mind off said casualties. War used to be seen as a fun and manly event where you go out to see new places, get cool loot, and test your abilities against other men. But with WWI, you sat in the same desolate place for months on end, nothing is won, and you are killed by people you never see. That is why everyone took it so bad, everything war, with the exception of defending your homeland, was gone. It is why war today is seen as a duty instead of a adventure like it was in ages past. And without the mentality of those ages, I feel that the mental defenses against the horrors of war were removed, and thus we were effected more deeply in WWII.

[QueenAngelCakes]

There's a play set in the trenches (both sides) called "Angels Calling", very much influenced and inspired by this song, as well as Sabaton's others Great War and Price of a Mile.
If anyone's in the area, it's being performed in Glastonbury, UK, on November 11th this year, at a venue called the Assembly Rooms.
I'll be playing a senior British soldier.

[dutchvanderlinde]

My great grandfather fought in WW1. He actually was exposed to gas but survived.