Father

Long ago in eastern Prussia

Young men with great ambitions rise

So who can tell me who can say for sure

Which one will win the Nobel Prize?

It was a golden age for science

The Kaiserreich would hold the key

And as the conflict came and tensions rose

The manifest of the '93

Haber-Bosch, the great alliance

Where's the contradiction?

Fed the world by ways of science

Sinner or a saint?

Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare

His dark creation has been revealed

Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare

A deadly mist on the battlefield

"Perversions of ideals of science"

Lost words of alienated wife

And in the trenches of the western front

Unknowing soldiers pay the price

And on the battlefield they're dying

And on the fields the crops are grown

So who can tell us what is right or wrong

Maths or morality alone?

Haber-Bosch, the great alliance

Where's the contradiction?

Fed the world by ways of science

Sinner or a saint?

Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare

His dark creation has been revealed

Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare

A deadly mist on the battlefield

Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare

His dark creation has been revealed

Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare

A deadly mist on the battlefield

During times when there's peace he belonged to the world

During times when there's war he belonged to his place of birth

Where will this lead?

What's coming next

From your inventions?

We wonder where

Where does it end?

Who can foresee

See what will be?

Haber-Bosch, the great alliance

Where's the contradiction?

Fed the world by ways of science

Sinner or a saint?

Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare

His dark creation has been revealed

Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare

A deadly mist on the battlefield

Father of toxic gas and chemical warfare

His dark creation has been revealed

Flow over no man's land, a poisonous nightmare

A deadly mist on the battlefield