[Verse 1]
Moon like a hanging blade
Helmets shine
Eyes of flame
Mud on our fathers’ graves
Honor is just your name
Breath in the bitter smoke
Steel in a ruthless arc
Footsteps in fractured snow
Footsteps that cut the dark
[Pre-Chorus]
We were brothers once
Training in the rain
Now it’s blackened flags
Dripping with your name
[Chorus]
Blood on the neon steel (hey!)
Clash in the frozen night
You and I
We don’t yield
Only one walks out alive
War drums under my skin
Hear them calling for your life
Blood on the neon steel
Samurai in electric light
[Verse 2]
Mask on a painted face
Can’t see the boy I knew
Echoes of wooden blades
Drowned by the rage in you
Snowflakes on tattered cloth
Crimson along the seam
Every cut that we trade
Finishes old dreams
[Pre-Chorus]
We were shadows once
Running through the pines
Now these shattered vows
Carved into our spines
[Chorus]
Blood on the neon steel (oh!)
Clash in the frozen night
You and I
We don’t yield
Only one walks out alive
War drums under my skin
Hear them calling for your life
Blood on the neon steel
Samurai in electric light
[Bridge]
Will you bow
If I let you breathe?
Or raise your hand
Just to cut at me? (yeah)
If I fall
Bury me upright
Blade in hand
Facing you in spite
[Chorus]
Blood on the neon steel
Clash in the frozen night
You and I
We don’t yield
Only one walks out alive
War drums under my skin
Hear them calling for your life
Blood on the neon steel
Samurai in electric light
[Outro]
Step for step
Strike for strike
Two old ghosts
In the strobe-lit night