Choking on gas, ash clouds, bullets and mortars fire Brothers torn and strewn, ensnared by barbed wire Forgetting who I am, forgetting everything I know Spirit shatters, poison spreads, dysphoria, amnesia grows A different man returns, than the soldier who left for war Memories forgotten, a pact annulled, exempt from the devil’s jaw But dark fragments come creeping in, outside gathers a storm Confrontation, cold sweat, approached by an evil that’s taken form The Sword of Damocles raised above my head A dark apparition at the foot of my bed And now I'm at the end of a hangman’s rope My everlasting soul, claimed by the goat My body, a dead weight hanging from the roof The last thing I hear is the tap of a cloven hoof