Fighting Times

Lyrics

We came up from the cold black tide,
With empty hands and nowhere to hide,
The salt cut deep where the winters bit,
But we learned to breathe in the heart of it.
Stone by stone and storm by storm,
We made our strength from the broken form,
Every scar was a line we learned,
Every loss was a wheel that turned.
We bent, we broke, but we did not fall,
We carved our names in the face of it all,
And the winds that tried to take our flame—
Only taught us to speak their name.
[chorus]
We were born for—
Born for!
We were forged in—
Forged in!
Fire and tide and vile lies—
Vile lies!
We stand alive in broken lines—
Broken lines!
WE WERE BORN FOR THE FIGHTING TIMES!
[verse 2]
But the map ran out where the stars went blind,
And the compass turned in circles in kind,
We followed echoes through shattered air,
Only to find no “there” was there.
Voices rose in the static sea,
Calling names that weren’t meant for me,
And every horizon we thought was near
Just folded back into shifting fear.
So we sailed on paths that forgot our name,
Through waking dreams and a field of flame,
Still we held to a fading light—
A promise buried in endless night.
[chorus
We were born for—
Born for!
We were forged in—
Forged in!
Fire and tide and iron skies—
Iron skies!
We stand alive in broken lines—
Broken lines!
WE WERE BORN FOR THE FIGHTING TIMES!
[bridge]
Then in the dark where the silence breaks,
Where even sorrow begins to wake,
A single ember refused to die—
A pulse of red in a ruined sky.
And it spoke like thunder under the skin,
Not of the end—but what lives within,
Not of the fall—but the rising flame,
The endless return of a spoken name.
So we lift our eyes through the vile storm,
And find the shape of a world reborn—
Not lost to time, not left behind,
But burning bright in the fighting times.
[Instrumental]
We were born for—
Born for!
We were forged in—
Forged in!
Fire and tide and iron skies—
Iron skies!
We stand alive in broken lines—
Broken lines!
WE WERE BORN FOR THE FIGHTING TIMES!