Sirens are wailing, systems are failing   Another line has been overrun   Bombers in the air, raining hatred and despair   So many that they cover the sun   Call the counterattack, drive the enemy back   Through their lines we must break through   With full scale fighting, our charge becomes lightning   Breaking the red army in two   From foxhole to foxhole, over barbed wire   Dodging the enemy mines   Past fallen comrades into the face of death   I charge the enemy lines   From the deserts of Africa to the Russian steppes   I've battled through the heat and the cold   Each scar tells you a story   And that's why I behold, the iron cross   Behold, the iron cross   Behold, the iron cross   Behold, the iron cross   Armored divisions pound their positions   Call in the stuka attack   Past screaming rockets, we break the encircled pocket   Never to look back   Stubborn resistance, full scale persistence   Orders from the high command   Make the stand to the last man it's all for the fatherland   Bogged in mire under constant fire   Atrocity victims lie dead in the snow   The guerrilla hunt will be swift and blunt   Reprisals will be tenfold   I was awarded for my fierceness in battle   Even though it all seemed lost   Crossed swords and oak leaves now   Decorate my cross! behold, the iron cross   Behold, the iron cross   Behold, the iron cross   Behold, the iron cross   Panzers rolling death bell tolling   A nations loss never to be healed   Smoke and fire a funeral pyre   Charred remains litter the battle field   Agony screams shattered dreams   Another life is lost   Insanity grows   Limbs are froze in the dead of the winters frost   Hard as steel nothing I feel   Honor has healed my wounds   Machine gun bursts quench my thirst   My bayonet is perched to run you through   Exploding shells frozen hells   I've survived my every test   Skorzeny, Meier, Florian Geyer   I've fought beside the very best   BEHOLD!