A city named for a leaderA leader named for steel
It was a symbol
To her people one of greatness
To her enemy one of weakness
To both it was an immutable goal
Defend or die, or to Conquer or die
More than a million died
When counting the civilians
And absolutely must
They had no choice to die
They could not leave
They could not fight
They could only fall dead in the crossfires
Or smothered in collapsed buildings
From artillery shells, bullets or bombs
The city Stalingrad experienced Armageddon
Each of the Four Horsemen had visited
Death, Pestilence, Plague, Famine
Stalingrad was to suffer
But it was not enough
Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden
Each faced their own Armageddon
And the Horsemen rode there
To show mankind the cost of oblivion
