[Intro – Low, distorted]
Eight flames…
Seven…
Six…
[Heartbeat kicks in]
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[Verse 1 – Fast, aggressive]
Smoke in my lungs and blood in the rain,
Castle collapsing in ember and flame,
Eight of us left but we’re not the same,
Every step heavier under the shame.
Valen fell in a reckless charge,
Lightning split but the wound too large,
Mira burned out shielding the guards,
Hope getting thinner by shards.
Darius broke with shield in hand,
Holding a stair he couldn’t command,
Elric died where the chapel stands —
Praying to gods that never answered.
Seven… six… counting the screams,
Oaths unraveling at the seams,
Lucien watching through the steam —
Like this was always the dream.
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[Chorus 1]
We were the crimson knights raging,
Steel in the dark still blazing,
Red sun high and waiting,
Hungry for what we’d become.
One by one we were taken,
Faith in the throne forsaken,
If this is the world we’re saving —
Then let it burn when we’re done.
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[Verse 2 – Personal, violent]
Orion fell at my side,
Chainblade wrapped but he still tried,
Told me, “Don’t let the fire die,”
Then went still in my arms that night.
Garron’s blood on marble floor,
Nyx and Seris gone before,
Darius silent by the door —
I felt something snap at the core.
Lucien stepped through falling ash,
Blackened blade with mirrored mask,
“End the cycle — let it pass.”
I answered him with wrath.
Steel met steel in a shower of sparks,
Red sun staring down from the dark,
Every loss carved in my heart —
And it finally caught.
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[Chorus 2 – Heavier]
Now I’m the crimson knight standing,
Eight graves deep in the sand and,
Red sky wide and expanding —
The last of the oath remains.
Ten under one sun shattered,
Names in the smoke like daggers,
If fate wants blood — it can have it.
I’m done playing saint.
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[Breakdown – FULL SCREAM SECTION]
[Drums drop. Guitars chug.]
YOU WANTED A SACRIFICE?
YOU TOOK THEM ALL.
YOU CALLED IT MERCY —
I CALL IT WAR.
NO KNEELING.
NO CROWNS.
NO GODS LEFT TO SAVE YOU NOW.
I’LL BURN YOUR THRONE TO THE GROUND.
[Scream sustained]
THIS IS THE OATH —
OF THE FIRST.
FLAME.
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[Chorus 3 – Final, explosive]
I’M THE CRIMSON KNIGHT STANDING,
ASH IN MY VEINS COMMANDING,
RED SUN BLAZING, DEMANDING —
THE LAST OF THE TEN HAS RISEN.
When the sky bleeds red, understand it,
That’s the night I was branded,
That’s when the oath turned to anguish —
And the last crimson knight…
Was born in the fire.
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[Outro – Seamless transition]
Sky bleeds red where the sun went down…
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