[Verse 1 – Approach]
Through smoke and flame and shattered sky,
She came in low, she came in fast—
The Babe was screaming through the fire,
Like she outran her past.
Chain behind her groaned and sang,
That iron ghost she dragged along—
“No turning now!” the deckhands roared,
“Hold her straight and hold her strong!”
[Chorus]
Heave away! Let her fly!
Drag that thunder through the sky!
No safe harbor, no retreat—
We bring the guns or we don’t leave!
Heave away! Cut her free!
Give ‘em iron, set it loose!
If we’re going down today—
We go down raising hell and truth!
[Verse 2 – The Drop]
Over the wall they swung her wide,
Right above the breaking line—
“Cut it loose!” the order came,
“Drop it now—it’s do or die!”
Chains went slack, the burden drifted,
Floating down through ash and cries—
Crates of rifles, sleeping thunder,
Falling from the bleeding skies.
Hands below reached up through fire,
Dragging hope from smoke and flame—
And every soul who touched that iron
Knew the fight had changed its name.
[Chorus]
Heave away! Turn her round!
Put her back into the storm!
We didn’t come to watch them fall—
We came to keep ‘em standing strong!
Heave away! Hold her fast!
No retreat and no release—
If this sky becomes our grave,
We’ll fill it full of shattered beasts!
[Verse 3 – Into the Fight]
Wheel her hard! Bring her about!
Stormbreaker’s bleeding in the gale—
Listing slow but firing still,
Mark won’t bend and will not fail.
Side by side they climb the fire,
Two broken blades that will not yield—
And the Babe runs straight at death itself
To take the sky back from the field.
Wyverns screaming, drakes in waves,
Claw and fang and freezing breath—
But shot and steel and screaming men
Start to turn the tide of death.
[Bridge – The Swarm Breaks]
They came in close, they came in mad,
Claws on deck and fire in throats—
Ripping lines and splintering beams,
Tearing through the hull and boats—
But one by one they fell away,
Shot from sky or torn from wing—
Till even monsters learned to fear
The bite that desperate men can bring—
[Break]
…Then something changed.
[Outro – The Arrival]
The sky went still. The screaming died.
A shadow spread where none should be—
Not brood, not beast, not lesser spawn…
But something old… and something free.
The Babe climbed higher, burning hard,
Leaving Stormbreaker below—
Toward the dark that swallowed light
And smothered all the world in shadow.
And every soul who saw that rise
Felt the truth they could not outrun—
The real battle… had begun.
ElCeviche
