[Intro] [Am] Shadows whisper through the years --- [F] Dates that bleed, locations seared --- [C-G] [Verse 1] [Am-F] Hastings, England, --- year ten sixty-six, ---arrows raining from the sky [C] Granada, Spain, --- year fourteen ninety-two, --- last Moorish banners fall and die [G] Yorktown, America, --- year seventeen seventy-six, --- cannons roaring through the night [Am-F] Paris, France, --- year seventeen eighty-nine, --- crowds and kingdoms start to fight [C] [Pre-Chorus] [F-C] Time turns battles into dust --- [G] But the echoes push and thrust --- [Am] [Chorus] [Am-F-C-G x2] Conflicts carve the human soul, carve the soul -- Dates and places take their toll, take their toll --- From ancient fields to modern fire -- Wars that never truly tire, never tire --- Hear the cry, feel the pyre, -- Echoes of the fallen, higher, higher --- [Verse 2] [Am-F] Gettysburg, America, --- year eighteen sixty-three, --- brothers falling in the rain [C] Khartoum, Sudan, --- year eighteen eighty-five, --- river crimson, silent pain [G] Ypres, Belgium, --- year nineteen fourteen, --- poison drifting through the night [Am-F] Gallipoli, Turkey, --- year nineteen fifteen, --- distant shores consume the fight [C] Normandy, France, --- year nineteen forty-four, --- waves colliding into steel [G] Dresden, Germany, --- year nineteen forty-five, --- burning shadows none can heal [Am] [Pre-Chorus] [F-C] Time turns battles into dust -- [G] But the echoes push and thrust --- [Am] [Chorus] [Am-F-C-G x2] Conflicts carve the human soul, carve the soul -- Dates and places take their toll --- From ancient fields to modern fire -- Wars that never truly tire, never tire --- Hear the cry, feel the pyre -- Echoes of the fallen, higher, higher --- [Bridge] [Dm-Em-F-G] Saigon, Vietnam, --- year nineteen sixty-eight, ---city shaking in the storm [Am] Prague, Czechoslovakia, --- year nineteen sixty-eight, --- tanks erase a fragile form [F] Sinai deserts and frontlines, --- year nineteen seventy-three --- holy thunder splits the sand [C] Tehran, Iran, --- year nineteen seventy-nine, --- crowds and soldiers hand in hand [G] Baghdad, Iraq, --- year nineteen ninety-one, --- midnight turning into light [Am] Srebrenica, Bosnia, --- year nineteen ninety-five, --- silence screaming through the night [F] Grozny, Chechnya, --- year nineteen ninety-nine, --- shattered streets and walls of stone [C-G] Kyiv, Ukraine, --- year twenty twenty-two, --- winter shakes but stands alone [Am] [Breakdown] [Am hold - instrumental 8 bars] Places on the timeline, never forget, never forget -- Voices from the fire, never forget, never forget --- [Final Chorus] [Am-F-C-G x2 - build] Conflicts carve the human soul, carve the soul -- Dates and places take their toll --- From ancient fields to modern fire -- Wars that never truly tire, never tire --- Hear the cry, feel the pyre -- Echoes of the fallen, higher, higher, higher --- [Outro - Fade Out] [Am-F-C-G fade] Shadows whisper through the years --- Echoes... fallen... persevere -- Places on the timeline, fade --- Names on the frontline, fade -- [Am-F-C-G instrumental outro, long fade, 8 to 16 bars] ---
