Motherland's Sons (Revised)

Oh Mother you have been cruel to me!
Oh Mother you have betrayed me!

Shall I list all the ways
In with you crushed my heart?
Shall I bow and all I give
Be spent as you tore me back from bone?
Let me recite how it all birthed-
Oh I will do it! You know I can!

I grew up in your changing world,
Though I doubt you knew or cared,
I wanted to be the best son I possible
And I cared only how you upheld.
- I was devoted to you, Mother,
- I would gladly die for you!

Then upon us came a war
And I gladly fought for you.
I was entrenched down in the battle
Standing always by death's passage
I dodged the shells and bullets
To live for you - my Mother!

In the midst of the roar,
A shell broke out
And I was cast upon the rock
I lost all light, and all around
Was the sweet darkness to me.
I laid there wounded for you my Mother!
I lay like the dead - Lay there because of you!

I awoke and "Prisoner" they said!
Oh how could it come to this?
How could all freedom be upset
And I be stripped of Mother's love?
So into the horrible camps I went
And I did it all for you!

But you! what did you do Mother?
You refused to give me food!
I begged from the English and French and Others
For at least they filled my needs.
I starved on the cold and frozen ground -
Mother! I starved there just for you!

And when my brothers came to rescue me
They returned me to your arms.
And what did you do - oh Mother dear-
You beat me with alarm.
Into the darkest, deepest cell
You thrust me without love,
Into a fate accursed of all fates
You placed me without thanks.

You told me to confess the things
I never even heard of,
But you said I'd dome them and so must sign
To seal mine only doom.
I signed those lies for you, My Mother -
I signed them just for you!

And then to the camps
Where I work both night and day.
No food but the meager crumbs
Which make us weep and "Why?!"
For how could you do this to your loyal sons?
Mother! we never drempt of your death!

So here we slave and work for you
Our Mother so unfaithful
You gave us our creed of "Ivan Plen Nicht!"
And if we failed it
You cursed us like some kind of plague!
But it was all for you, Motherland!
We did it all for you!

So thus Mother you have been cruel to us!
You forsook your sons so 
Goodbye to you, our Mother dear,
We gladly 'Goodbye' to thee.