[Intro] [Verse 1] At dawn we stand on broken ground With iron in our hands The winter fields are burning now Across our fathers’ lands They thought our crown was rust and dust A ghost upon the wall But hear the drums beneath our feet The old kingdom calls [Pre-Chorus] Raise your eyes The king is in the rain Raise your steel We do not fall in vain [Chorus] Under the old red banner We march through blood and thunder For every stone, for every home For all we are and all we’ve known Under the old red banner Let every heart remember The crown may bleed, the walls may bend But this is not the kingdom’s end [Verse 2] No lord shall hide behind his name No oath shall sleep in gold Today the high and low are one Before the storm unfolds The ravens wheel, the horns reply The mud is black with war But I have seen the king ride out And I will fear no more [Pre-Chorus] Raise your eyes His banner cuts the sky Raise your steel The old blood will not die [Chorus] Under the old red banner We march through blood and thunder For every stone, for every home For all we are and all we’ve known Under the old red banner Let every heart remember The crown may bleed, the walls may bend But this is not the kingdom’s end [Solo] [Bridge] Not for glory, not for gold Not for songs when we are old For the fields where children run For the bread beneath the sun For the dead beneath the stone For the names we’ve never known For the king who stands beside Every soul who turns the tide [Final Chorus] Under the old red banner We rise through blood and thunder For every stone, for every home For all we are and all we’ve known Under the old red banner Let every heart remember The crown may bleed, the walls may bend But this is not the kingdom’s end Under the old red banner We hold the line together From ash and steel, from storm and flame The old kingdom lives again [Outro]
