[Intro] [Driving 102 BPM two-step groove, weeping pedal steel, fingerpicked acoustic guitar and twangy Telecaster over crisp punchy drums] [Verse 1] The ruins stood tall against a blackened out sky Where the sick and the wounded were carried to die The siren cut through the medieval stone The hospital burning, abandoned, alone A spark in the night and a terrible heat The firemen running in panic and sweat Monks in the shadows just watching the flame A ghost in the ash with no face and no name [Pre-Chorus] Shadows are dancing in hospital halls! Panic and fire are tearing the walls! The white crosses burning as century breaks! A roar from the past and the ancient awakes! [Chorus] Knights of the king charging out of the dark! Steel in the smoke and a blinding white spark! Holding the line at the hospital gate! Fighting the fire and fighting the fate! Danes in the shadows, no quarter, no yield! Defending the ruins with sword and a shield! [Verse 2] A hundred dead men rising up from the ground Marching in step with no heartbeat or sound The morning arrived and the ashes grew cold A story of phantoms that never was told Just tracks in the gravel, the soot and the clay The shadows retreated and faded away [Chorus] Knights of the king charging out of the dark! Steel in the smoke and a blinding white spark! Holding the line at the hospital gate! Fighting the fire and fighting the fate! Danes in the shadows, no quarter, no yield! Defending the ruins with sword and a shield! [Outro] Shadows over the ruins. [Pedal steel and singing fiddle trade licks over a driving two-step, finishing on a crisp country stop]
