Until Valhalla

“When The Last Roll Call Comes” (Spoken Intro) You spend your whole life learning how to survive… but nobody teaches you how to live with the memories. --- (Verse 1) We were young once… bulletproof in our minds laughing in the dark like tomorrow owed us something. Dust on our boots. Smoke in the wind. Names carved into our hearts before we even understood what losing meant. Some came home broken. Some never came home at all. --- (Pre-Chorus) And every year there’s fewer voices at the table… fewer stories told… fewer names remembered. But I still see them. God help me… I still see them. --- (Chorus) Gone… but never forgotten. Some gave all… and all gave some. And when the sun goes down and the silence starts talking… I raise my glass to the brothers still marching ahead. Until Valhalla. Until the last roll call comes. --- (Verse 2) A warrior dies twice… once when his heart stops beating… and once when his name is spoken for the last time. So tonight I speak their names into the dark like a prayer only old soldiers understand. Because memories don’t salute. They haunt. --- (Bridge) They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them… nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun… and in the morning… we will remember them. --- (Final Chorus) No more war. No more fear. No more empty chairs in the rain. Just old brothers meeting again somewhere beyond the smoke. And when my own boots finally stop marching… tell them I carried their names to the very end. Until Valhalla. --- (Outro – almost whispered) To our fallen comrades… We knew them. We remember them. And they will never be forgotten.