[intro] [Verse 1: triumphant] We breach the wallls a crimson tide! Our surge rolls on nowhere to hide! Who would dare to block our way? What force can deny us this day? Through jaded fire, We rise as one, Loyal hearts, This day is won! [Pre-Chorus] Let's push on through! (For the Empress!) We crush the night! (For the Empress!) Our souls are pure! (For the Empress!) We have the right! (For the Empress!) [instrumental flourish: harmonised melodic lead guitar stab] [Chorus: Presto] Ohhhhhh! The Fury of the Crimson Blades! Ohhhhhh! The Fury of the Crimson Blades! Ohhhhhh! The Fury of the Crimson Blades! Unleash the Fury Of the Crimson Blades! "For the Empress!" Go! [instrumental break: virtuoso harmonised lead guitar solo] [Verse 2: gang vocals] Each step we take the ground grows red! Carpet of goooore laid by countless dead! What song will mourn your fleeting light? No cost to prove our cause is right! Through jaded fire, We stand as one A thousand hearts, A single sun! [Pre-Chorus] Let's push on through! (For the Empress!) We crush the night! (For the Empress!) Our souls are pure! (For the Empress!) We have the right! (For the Empress!) [instrumental flourish: pounding drum rolls and cymbal crashes] [Chorus: Presto, guitar chases vocals] Ohhhhhh! The Fury of the Crimson Blades! Ohhhhhh! The Fury of the Crimson Blades! Ohhhhhh! The Fury of the Crimson Blades! Unleash the Fury Of the Crimson Blades! [Interlude: arpeggiated lead guitar chases vocals] Through cracked gasmask a blood-red sky, Smoke slithers As good and bad die. A glint of steel A sudden foe, An amber blade Sings a song of woe. They lunge With battle cries, But prayers are stifled In the acrid air [decrescendo, sparse instrumentation] A blade struck home Beneath his ribs Bloody sprays Red where we all lay. The ground drank deep, No victor's cry, Just crimson peace beneath azure sky. [flourish: arpeggiated, mournful synths] [finale, slow, spoken, lead guitar trills and stabs] And with his last dying breath He yet confessed Just three words no more (no less) "FOR THE EMPRE--"[end]
