[Verse 1] They lay us down upon the altar stone And bid the dark to make our flesh its own We do not fight the thing that fills our chest We swallow whole what no man should ingest The Chapter does not choose the weak of will Twelve companies are fed into the kill Eight in ten will never see the door We are the few who carried something more [Pre-Chorus] Somewhere within the Rite does not sleep It holds the vow that every brother keeps The Liber's word becomes the shape we bear We carry ruin as an act of prayer [Chorus 1] We are the Keepers of the Tomb Bound to guard what waits in sacred gloom Every scream we swallow every rite we hold Is a door we shut before it can unfold [Verse 2] It speaks in tongues that curl behind our teeth It offers strength it offers sweet relief Just let me stay it hums beneath our skin You'll never win this war from where you've been We feel its hunger tangled in our own We feel the Warp trying to claim the throne But faith is not the absence of the dread It's standing still with poison in your head [Verse 3] The Inquisitor comes robed in iron and rust His seal unbroken his purpose beyond trust He does not flinch to hear the fiend's true name He lights the brand that burns away the shame Clank of chains The circle drawn in red The words of banishment Start low unsaid We brace our bodies For the tearing out The war begins Not with a blade But a shout [Bridge] By our will we cast thee down By our blood we break your crown No throne for you in flesh we own No home for you return unknown We name you nothing we name you gone We are the wall you break upon Go back to silence go back to void The flesh you hungered for is not destroyed It's forged [Chorus] We are the Keepers of the Tomb Forged in the fire of a stolen room Every scream we swallowed made us what we are A door slammed shut a closing scar We are the Keepers of the Tomb No fiend remembers the flesh it once consumed We do not fear the dark we are the dark's own end The Rite lives on in every wound we mend [Final Repetition] We are the Keepers of the Tomb Bound to guard what waits in sacred gloom Every scream we swallowed every rite we hold Is a door we shut Before it can unfold Begone now fiend Your name undone The vigil does not end
