[Intro]
[Big piano–fiddle–cello riff, drums slam in]
Steel and sorrow
Dust and dawn
[Verse 1]
Boots sink
In a road of bones
Name carved out
On a weathered stone
Black flag
On a jagged hill
Every step I take
Feels against my will
Rust on the plates
Blood in the seams
Ghosts in the mail
Shouting in my dreams
I failed my king
I broke that oath
Now I walk this line
On a razor’s edge of hope
[Chorus]
I ride for redemption
Through fire, through rain
Armor full of scratches
Heart full of stains
If I fall, let the story
Burn in my chest
I’m a knight on a dead-end road
On a deadly quest
Steel and sorrow
Cutting through my chest
I’m a knight on a dead-end road
On a deadly quest
[Verse 2]
Yeah
Torchlight
Throwing claws on the wall
Hear chains
In the trees when they crawl
Old sins
Got teeth on my back
Every prayer that I spit
Sounds cracked
Crossroads
With a sword in the mud
See faces
In the ripples of blood
I swing for the ones
That I couldn’t save
Every enemy I drop
Is another grave
[Chorus]
I ride for redemption
Through fire, through rain
Armor full of scratches
Heart full of stains
If I fall, let the story
Burn in my chest
I’m a knight on a dead-end road
On a deadly quest
Steel and sorrow
Cutting through my chest
I’m a knight on a dead-end road
On a deadly quest (yeah)
[Bridge]
[Drums fall out, just piano, cello, fiddle building]
If my courage breaks
Will the past still chain me?
If the blade hits bone
Will the light still claim me?
If I pay in blood
Can the wrong turn right?
[Full band crashes back in]
So I raise that blade
To the blackened sky
If I die tonight
Let the old me die
[Chorus]
I ride for redemption
Through fire, through rain
Armor full of scratches
Heart full of stains
If I fall, let the story
Burn in my chest
I’m a knight on a dead-end road
On a deadly quest
Steel and sorrow
Hammer in my chest
I’m a knight on a dead-end road
On a deadly quest (oh)
On a deadly quest