[Verse 1]
Iron bound and the timber bends,
Where the dark sea breaks and the earth ends.
Shields up high in the freezing spray,
We carve our fate at the break of day.
Oaths recorded in the ice and stone,
Names carried farther than ships have gone.
With salt on our lips and ash in our hair,
We meet the morning and answer there.
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise the mast, draw the line,
Leave no promise behind.
[Chorus]
Stand fast, brothers, the tide is turning,
Stand fast, while the red sun’s burning.
Hand to hand and shoulder to shoulder,
We bear the weight as the years grow colder.
If the sea takes the road we came by,
Let our songs climb the storming sky.
Stand fast, let the old oath ring—
We are the stone beneath everything.
[Verse 2]
Raven circles above the foam,
Each black wing points toward the road home.
The smith’s mark shines on a battered blade,
Every scar is a debt repaid.
No crown of gold can command this crew,
Only the word that we swore was true.
Past the reef where the white waves climb,
We row together against the time.
[Bridge]
When the mast goes down,
When the fire burns low,
When the last oar breaks
In the undertow,
Call my name once,
I will answer twice—
Not for glory,
But for the lives.
[Final Chorus]
Stand fast, brothers, the tide is turning,
Stand fast, while the red sun’s burning.
Hand to hand and shoulder to shoulder,
We bear the weight as the years grow colder.
If the sea takes the road we came by,
Let our songs climb the storming sky.
Stand fast, let the old oath ring—
We are the stone beneath everything.
[Outro]
Iron bound and the timber bends,
But the vow survives where the daylight ends.