[Intro - Spoken with sung chorus] We ride the lines (Through the cold that held us long) Find the rails in the void (Where no master shapes our song) We ride the starlanes (With the ghosts behind our wake) This ship is now our home (And the dawn is ours to make) [Verse] He ruled our nights with silence With the weight of iron will (Will) But every tyrant’s shadow Meets a deeper shadow still (Still) We rose with quiet fury With the courage born of pain (Pain) And when his voice was ended We felt the world again (Free) [Chorus] We are free - men of the sail We are free - men without the yoke We are free - the old captain’s gone We are free - we craft our path alone [Verse] This ship was once a cage Full of tears and cries of woe (Woe) The metal knew our suffering The engines hummed it low (Low) Now it is an empty frame A vessel washed of fear (Free) Waiting for the legends We will carve in coming years (Years) [Chorus] We are free - men of the sail We are free - men without the yoke We are free - the old captain’s gone We are free - we craft our path alone [Verse] We were sold to crew Made to serve a piper’s call (Call) Our names stripped down to numbers Our pride stripped down to thrall (Thrall) We never wanted this life Never asked to bear the chain (Chain) But now the helm is open And we’ll never bow again (Free) [Bridge] The void is wide and waiting And the stars forgive the lost (Lost) They shine for those who suffered They shine for those who crossed (Crossed) We steer by quiet promise By the memory of the wrong (Wrong) And the men who break their shackles Are the men who carry on (Free) [Chorus] We are free - men of the sail We are free - men without the yoke We are free - the old captain’s gone We are free - we craft our path alone [Outro] We ride the lines And the lines lead us home We Are Free We Are Free
