Grabenlieder Lyrics in English KANONENFIEBER

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Grabenlieder by KANONENFIEBER from German to English.
Winter has come to us
Slowly it eats into our limbs
I'm standing dazed in the trench
Shells are hailing down on me
No Christmas tree and no family
Only men crouch in the dugout
As gifts, grenades that fly
Between the blasts you can hear
Trench songs
Stand man to man
That the cold
Can't hurt us
Trench songs
In the dead land
A murmur goes
Through every dugout
Trench songs
Silent night
Until the Reaper
Gets to work
Trench songs
When blood snows
Death and fear
At Christmastime
The ground of the trenches frozen
Every shell turns to shrapnel
Frozen earth crashes around our ears
Cold fire that lights the night
Rats race down the parapet
They gnaw on the stone-stiff dead
Every crater a mass grave
More corpses above than below the ground
Death and sorrow at Christmastime
Death and sorrow at Christmastime
Trench songs
Stand man to man
That the cold
Can't hurt us
Trench songs
In the dead land
A murmur goes
Through every dugout
Trench songs
Silent night
Until the Reaper
Gets to work
Trench songs
When blood snows
Death and fear
At Christmastime
Impact here, hit there, they fire
Dead freezing, no coffin, no absolution
Christmastime in MG bursts
Deep voices in the trench
Winter has come to us
Slowly it eats into our limbs
I'm standing dazed in the trench
Shells are hailing down on me
No Christmas tree and no family
Only men crouch in the dugout
As gifts, grenades that fly
Between the blasts you can hear
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SONG MEANING

Grabenlieder drops you into a World War I trench in the dead of winter, where Christmas cheer has been replaced by whistling shells and the crunch of frozen earth. Instead of a tree and presents, the soldiers receive “gifts” of grenades, and the only choir is a line of weary men chanting to keep their spirits from freezing. Snow mixes with blood, rats feast among the corpses, and every explosion turns the ground into lethal shrapnel. The song’s title—literally “trench songs”—highlights this bitter contrast: cozy holiday traditions colliding with the brutal soundtrack of war.

KANONENFIEBER uses stark, cinematic lyrics to show how music and camaraderie become lifelines when hope is scarce. By twisting the familiar Stille Nacht into a grim battlefield lullaby, the band reminds us that even in humanity’s bleakest moments, people cling to song, solidarity, and a fragile sense of normalcy. “Grabenlieder” is both a chilling history lesson and a testament to the resilience of soldiers who sang through the horror surrounding them.

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