Nanking Lyrics - Exhibit B: The Human Condition - Exodus

Sadistic soldiers of the rising sun 

1937's when the rape had begun 

The ancient city fell under imperial rule 

By an engine of war and lust, savage and cruel 

Assembly line efficiency of killing machines 

Unbridled fury of the sick and obscene 

Systematic sexual degradation 

The more perverse the greater exaltation 

Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run 

They turned the waters of the Yangtze red with blood 

Cast aside and brutalized 

Terrific horror made to terrorize 

Bestial and violent, six weeks of suffering 

So black was the day they marched through the gates 

Their fate was beckoning 

Tanks ran over men nailed to boards 

Decapitations with an officer's sword 

Gang rape of women, both the young and the old 

Frozen to death in waters ice cold 

Disembowelment, some are buried alive 

Suicide's preferred for those who survive 

The stench of corpses everywhere in the streets 

Dogs feast on the rotting meat 

Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run 

They turned the waters of the Yangtze red with blood 

Cast aside and brutalized 

Terrific horror made to terrorize 

Bestial and violent, six weeks of suffering 

So black was the day they marched through the gates 

Their fate was beckoning 

It was the rape of Nanking 

Thousands forced into prostitution 

So many years and still no restitution 

The carnage of Carthage so easily outdone 

Add all the blood you get 1200 tons 

Massacre removed from history books 

No mention of men hung from iron hooks 

All counter to the rules of war 

They made a city an army's whore 

Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run 

They turned the waters of the Yangtze red with blood 

Cast aside and brutalized 

Terrific horror made to terrorize 

Bestial and violent, six weeks of suffering 

So black was the day, they marched through the gates 

Their fate was beckoning 

It was the rape of Nanking