Under the Bloody Banner

from The Cold Plains by Hoarfrost

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Reverberations of a memory
The sound of an army marching over me
Legions of soldiers guns to the sky
Strong of arm with an eagles’ eye
Pounding their heels into the ground
Pounding out a warpath

Chorus:
Under the bloody banners
Of our forefathers
We shall fight as one
We shall fight until the fighting's done

In defense against a threat
Made of terror, blood and sweat
Children hide beneath their bed-covers
Daggers are taken up by their mothers
The armies reach out and envelope the earth
They take all in their berth

Under the bloody banners
Of our forefathers
We shall fight as one
We shall fight until the fighting's done
The closer to death I was
The more I felt alive
All about me, comrades are downed
And all are deafened by the war drum's sound...

[Solo: Brett]

Pound, pound, their heels into the ground
Pound, pound out a warpath
Pound, pound, to guts and glory
They are bound, pound out a warpath

The lands are churned, mud covers all
Un-fucking-stoppable
Beneath their powder and steel and their machinations
We shall fall to the assault of the warmonger's nation

Night falls upon a blackened earth
Blasted ruins are all that is left of worth... of worth...
Night falls and all that is left
Is a single candle burning dimly in the dark... the dark...

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from The Cold Plains, released November 21, 2009

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