Lyrics

Black smoke over broken names
Children choking on the flame
Dead eyes staring from the mud
History written in their blood
Iron sermons
Poisoned creeds
Tyrant saints in crimson deeds
Every slogan carved in bone
Whole towns turned to killing zones

This is the hell of war
Torn flags
A river of mourning
Tears for the ones who swore
They’d hold the line till the dawning
They bled so the world could breathe
They fell so the rest could leave
This is the hell of war
We scream for the dead we’re adorning (hey!)

Masks on murder
Holy rage
Rusted chains
A crowded cage
False messiahs
Clenched-fist lies
Stacked-up bodies
Lowered eyes
Red banners over mass graves
Marching boots on shattered faith
Every zealot
Every throne
Built on skulls they called their own

This is the hell of war
Torn flags
A river of mourning
Tears for the ones who swore
They’d hold the line till the dawning
They bled so the world could breathe
They fell so the rest could leave
This is the hell of war
We scream for the dead we’re adorning

Name by name
In the dark we call them
Flame by flame
Every star that fell then

This is the hell of war
Torn flags
A river of mourning
Tears for the ones who swore
They’d hold the line till the dawning
They bled so the world could breathe
They fell so the rest could leave
This is the hell of war
For the fallen
We rise from the mourning (rise!)