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AS SO OFTEN HAPPENS IN POP CULTURE, listener interpretations of Zyklon lyrics were sometimes wildly at variance. . . . The above reviewer’s quote is only off by one word. Here are the actual lyrics to the first track on THE HEARTLAND:

All Night War Film

soldier smokes
cigarette
blood drenched dawn
black and white set
smoke stills
shaking hand
until death comes on the battle scarred sand

all night
all night war film
all night
all night war film
all night
all night war film
all
night
long

gather 'round
my friends, prevent
the ambulance from reaching
the accident
survival
well that's "the law"
they say the human brain's so tender
you can eat it raw

as a soldier
feel no remorse, when you
piss in the mouth
of a still warm corpse
millions die, drown in the mud
but it's okay
history's written in blood

all night
all night war film... (repeats)

[copyright 1981/2007 Younker Zuidema Purdy]