[Intro]
Yeah… the battlefield don’t forget,
The dead don’t rest — they whisper through my headsets.
They said war makes men, but that’s a fuckin’ lie,
It just turns boys into ghosts that still fight to die.
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[Verse 1]
They call me Reaper — I don’t flinch, I don’t pray,
Every trigger pull’s another name carved in clay.
Eighty-Six on my tag, left behind by the crown,
We die for a flag that don’t even come around.
Metal screams, smell of rust in my lungs,
The Republic fed us lies since we all were young.
I led wolves through hell, now they call me their king,
But every kill I make just tightens that string.
Fuck medals, fuck honor — I seen men burn,
Watched their souls rise up while the Legion turn.
Every mech, every shell’s a goddamn sin,
But I ride the Juggernaut just to see them again.
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[Hook]
We the Eighty-Six — the lost, the damned,
Carved our names in the dirt by our own hands.
No salute, no thanks, no flag to wave,
We fight in silence for the ones they gave.
Ghosts march with me, can’t drown that sound,
Of brothers and sisters buried underground.
Veterans Day don’t mean peace to me —
It’s just another night with the ghosts I see.
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[Verse 2]
Yeah, I still hear Kai, I still feel DAY-ah,
Kurena’s tears fall heavier than fire.
They talk of peace like they ever seen war,
But they never wiped blood off a steel floor.
Ain’t no therapy when your trauma’s a creed,
Ain’t no sleep when your dreams still bleed.
Command calls us heroes — nah, we the proof,
That the system’s built on a pile of youth.
LAY-nuh called out to me through static and screams,
Told me to come home, but I live in the machine.
I told her — freedom don’t come cheap,
You pay with every comrade you fail to keep.
I’m the last one standin’, the last to pull through,
Carryin’ corpses and memories too.
So if you salute me, salute them all,
Every ghost that stood ‘fore the Empire’s fall.
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[Hook]
We the Eighty-Six — the lost, the damned,
Carved our names in the dirt by our own hands.
No salute, no thanks, no flag to wave,
We fight in silence for the ones they gave.
Ghosts march with me, can’t drown that sound,
Of brothers and sisters buried underground.
Veterans Day don’t mean peace to me —
It’s just another night with the ghosts I see.
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[Bridge]
Yeah, the world keeps turnin’ like it don’t owe shit,
But my squad still walks where the dead still sit.
You call it freedom, I call it pain,
I traded my soul for a number and name.
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[Outro]
So light that candle, pour one for the dead,
For the ones who lived battles inside their head.
Sheen-eh No-zen — last of the damned,
Reaper of the Eighty-Six, I still take command.
No glory in the fight, just duty and scars,
No medals shine brighter than fallen stars.
So on this day — don’t just thank the brave,
Remember the ones who never left the grave.