Here Is Where We Stand
Cold iron skies above these weary lands Smoke on the hills where our old kingdom stands No songs tonight to drown the coming tide Only the truth we no longer can hide We hear the thunder marching through the rain We know the cost, we know the weight of chains Still every heartbeat answers to the call If this must end, we will not crawl The banners tear against the dying light Brothers in silence preparing for the night Some speak of glory, some whisper of home Some hide their fear where nobody will know And every road we walked now leads us here Between our pride and everything we fear No hand from heaven reaching through the dark Only the fire still alive within our hearts We stand where the old world fades away One final breath before the break of day Here is where we stand With the ashes in our hands No surrender in our eyes Though the last horizon dies Here is where we stand Broken souls but unafraid If we fall into the storm Still something greater will remain I see the questions written on their faces The weight of years, the ghosts of sacred places No certain victory waits beyond this flame Yet something calls us onward just the same Maybe the truth was never ours to know Maybe the seed survives beneath the snow Maybe tomorrow rises from the dust Long after swords and kings have turned to rust If tonight becomes our ending Let it echo through the years Not for crowns or empty legends But because we faced our fears And if the walls around us shatter If the river runs with flame Let them say we stood together When the darkness came Here is where we stand At the edge of all we knew With the weight of fallen dreams And the fire burning through Here is where we stand Hearts exposed against the rain Though the kingdoms fade to dust The spirit will remain Here is where we stand No retreat and no disguise Only weary human hands Raised beneath collapsing skies The night may take the world we knew But not the will that brought us through And somewhere past the smoke and flame A new dawn waits beyond our name…
