When we set out on this journey   There were no doubts in our minds   We set our eyes to the distance   We would find what we would find      We took courage from our numbers   What we sought we did not fear   Sometimes we'd glimpse a shadow falling   The shadow would disappear      But our thoughts kept returning   To something the boy said   As we turned to go   He said you'll never see our faces again   You'll be food for a carrion crow      Every step we took today   Our thoughts would always stray   From the wind on the moor so wild   To the words of the captain's child   Something the boy said      In the circles we made with our fires   We talked of the pale afternoon   The clouds were like dark riders   Flying on the face of the moon   We spoke our fears to the captain   And asked what his son could know   For we would never have marched so far   To be food for a crow      Every step we took today   Our thoughts would always stray   From the wind on the moor so wild   To the words of the captain's child   Something the boy said      When I awoke this morning   The sun's eye was red as blood   The stench of burning corpses   Faces in the mud      Am I dead or am I living?   I'm too afraid to care, I'm too afraid to know   I'm too afraid to look behind me   At the feast of the crow   We spoke our fears to the captain   And asked what his son could know   For we would never have marched so far   To be food for a crow