[Intro] Bells… choir… distant war drums… Smoke on the skyline Gold in the flame A lion in shadow No crown, just a name From dust came the rebels With fire in their lungs Marching to heaven With psalms on their tongues [Verse 1] We came through ruin Through empire and ash Past the bones of the kings And the temples we smashed Up to the gates Of the holy white throne No god could deny us What blood said we’d own Then Michael appeared With the first angel host Sword made of starlight Bright as a ghost He cried, “You are nothing. Turn back or be slain.” Our hero stepped forward And answered with flame [Pre-Chorus] Thunder above us Steel in our hands Heaven was trembling To the rebel command [Chorus] We are the shadow at heaven’s gate The fire no throne can desecrate No halo spared, no tyrant saved We write our psalm across the brave O silver city, hear us come With lion hearts and warlike drums The first host broke, the sky ran red And angels learned at last to dread [Verse 2] Michael came burning But still he fell His army in pieces Like idols in hell The rebels cried out And the storm answered back As heaven split open In silver and black Then Gabriel rose With the second great choir A voice like judgment A heavenborn fire He sang to unmake us He sang to divide But our hero stood roaring And silenced the sky [Chorus] We are the shadow at heaven’s gate The fire no throne can desecrate No halo spared, no tyrant saved We write our psalm across the brave O silver city, hear us come With lion hearts and warlike drums The second host was torn apart By rebel hands and rebel heart [Bridge] Blessed the broken Blessed the scarred Blessed the ones Who made heaven hard If paradise stands On the neck of the weak Then let every tower Fall when we speak [Verse 3] Then Castiel came With the third in line Silent as death And cold as the divine No trumpet, no warning Just wings in the frost And a face like a blade For the souls he had lost Three times they struck And three times they failed Three armies buried Three archangels nailed Our hero moved black Against all that gleamed And tore through the host Like a wrath-born dream [Breakdown] Bow to no throne Break heaven stone Gold turns red When angels choke Raise the fire Sound the cry Let the holy empire die [Final Chorus] We are the shadow at heaven’s gate The fire no throne can desecrate Michael broken, Gabriel undone Castiel buried beneath the sun O silver city, now we stand Blood and victory on our hands Beyond the war, beyond the blade In fields of silver, unafraid [Outro] The gates lay open The sky stood still The rebels walked on Beyond the kill Into the meadows Of the silver divine Our hero in shadow At the end of time No kneeling, no mercy No chains, no crown Only the sound Of heaven brought down
