[Intro] Hold your breath, the valley listens Iron waits beneath the rain Every footstep finds its answer Every heart remembers pain [Verse 1] You tied the red cloth to your arm You marked the gate with ash I saw the fear behind your eyes Then watched it turn to brass No saint will come to carry us No bell will call us home So take my hand and face the field We do not face it alone [Pre-Chorus] When the ground begins to tremble When the distant towers burn Keep your name inside your mouth Keep your promise in your lungs [Chorus] Rise, rise, let the old walls shake Stand, stand, for the vows we made Through the fire, through the falling stone We become what we defend We become what we defend [Instrumental Battle] [Instrumental] [Verse 2] The banners cut across the smoke The drums divide the air You called my name across the dust I knew that you were there Our hands are bruised, our numbers thin The horizon bares its teeth But every line we hold tonight Is one more dawn beneath [Pre-Chorus] Let the silence break around us Let the enemy behold There is no retreat behind us There is only forward now [Chorus] Rise, rise, let the old walls shake Stand, stand, for the vows we made Through the fire, through the falling stone We become what we defend We become what we defend [Bridge] If I fall, take up the banner If you fall, I will remain Not for crowns or songs of glory For the names beneath our names Hear the living call the absent Feel the sky split wide above What we save with blood and courage Will be stronger than the flood [Final Chorus] Rise, rise, let the black sky break Stand, stand, till the mountains wake Through the fire, through the falling stone We are more than flesh and bone Rise, rise, let the whole world know Stand, stand, we were forged below With your hand locked inside my own We become what we defend We become what we defend [Outro] When the last horn fades to silence When the ash gives back the ground Leave the red cloth on the doorway So the lost can find us now
