[Verse 1]
Boots hit dirt on a shattered ring
Green steel frame and a burning sky
Gold visor hides every scar and sting
He walks
One man
While armies die
Silent code on his shoulder plate
Lost squad names carved in the paint
He reloads like he’s sealing fate
Breath is calm where the ground grows faint
[Chorus]
This is the Spartan’s war cry
Thirteen battles in every shout (hey!)
He holds the line while the floods rise
Never backing
Never blacking out
From glassed worlds to the dark stars
He’s the edge where the brave hearts fall
Raise your hands for the lone guard
One last stand
And he’ll take them all
[Verse 2]
Ghosts still talk through a broken chip
Cold blue flare that once lit his mind
Now it’s steel
Grit
Trigger
And fist
Old vows stitched in his spine
He storms fire through the crimson rain
Metal hail on the covenant ranks
Every hit writes another name
On a wall that will never be blank
[Chorus]
This is the Spartan’s war cry
Thirteen battles in every shout (whoa)
He holds the line while the floods rise
Never backing
Never blacking out
From glassed worlds to the dark stars
He’s the edge where the brave hearts fall
Raise your hands for the lone guard
One last stand
And he’ll take them all
[Bridge]
[Beat drops to stomping drums
Low chugs]
Step by step through the ash and bone
(Stay down!) enemies drone and break
He was born to bleed far from home
But he swore that the dawn will wake
[Chorus]
This is the Spartan’s war cry
Thirteen battles in every shout (hey!)
He holds the line while the floods rise
Never backing
Never blacking out
From glassed worlds to the dark stars
He’s the edge where the brave hearts fall
Raise your hands for the lone guard
One last stand
And he’ll take them all