The Hanged Ballad - Death SS

Human brothers that alive still you are

Don’t have for us frozen heart

That if mercy for us we wretched you have

God will grant you larger his favour

Hanging five, six here you can see us

Our flesh is once time too fatten

And by the time is devoured and ruined

Our bones turn in ashes and dust

No one laughed for the unwell that ravages us

But now pray God us to be absolved!

If we call you we don’t have to disdain

'though we’ve been killed in justice

But still you know about good sense

Many are lacking in this world

As we’re dead for us you can get

From the son of celestial Virgin

Who dried up the grace that doesn’t remain

And that saves us from the horrible flash!

Dead we are, no one molests us

But now pray God us to be absolved!

The shower has washed and cleaned us

And now the sun turns us black and dry

Magpies and ravens our eyes have dug up

And birds and eyelashes snatched with the beaks

We haven’t peace for just a moment

Here and there as the mind changes

Without pauses as his pleasure we turn

Bored more by bird than by thimbles

Go with us you’ve never been equal

But now pray God us to be absolved!

Oh God who upon all you rule!

Don’t let us feel the Hellish hot!

'Cause debts here don’t have to be absolved!

Men here don’t show mercy or irony

But now pray God us to be absolved!