[Verse 1] Black sand Teeth of the island Boats open up Young faces Salt on their tongues Thunder in the distance Fire in their hands Helmets down over shaking eyes “Move Move” Into the furnace [Chorus] Hold the hill Boys Hold the line Dig your boots in ash and time When the smoke clears Over broken ground We will raise that flag We will raise that flag So they see us from the sea [Verse 2] Five days Every step contested Names yelled once Then carried by the wind Ridge like a fist Clenched against the sky “Get that pole up there” Pass it hand to hand Splinters Blood And grit [Pre-Chorus] Up the jagged spine they climb Small against that rising fire Every inch a sacrifice Every breath a borrowed choir [Chorus] [Bridge] Canvas torn at the edges Still it climbed Steel pipe Shaking shoulders Hearts in time Guns fell silent Just for a breath A blink Every ship out on the water Watching that color drink the wind [Verse 3] Hands on the metal Boots in the rubble One man stumbles Another takes his place Shove the base in the blasted stone Push Lean Don’t let it fall That moment hangs Over history’s page Caught forever But it almost slipped [Chorus] [Outro] For the ones who didn’t come back down For the names carved Quiet in the ground That flag still climbs in the mind’s dark sea Ash and tattered cloth But it’s standing Standing Standing for the free
