[Verse 1]
White coat
Black sky
Footsteps echo in the Seireitei
Cherry leaves
Smell like steel
Every name here paid to stay
Thirteen doors
Thirteen flags
Every stitch sewn in with blood
Quiet captains
Smiling soft
Till they drag you through the dust
[Chorus]
Thirteen blades
Standing in the dust of heaven
Thirteen oaths
Carved into our bones forever
If I fall
Write my name across the gate
Soul by soul
We hold the line
Thirteen court guard squads awake
[Verse 2]
Tea steam
Sword scars
Laughing in a ruined hall
Paper walls
Hidden scars
Acting like we can’t recall
Friends turned
Masks on
Did we choose or were we chosen?
Fragile peace
Thin as silk
Every second feels broken
[Chorus]
Thirteen blades
Standing in the dust of heaven
Thirteen oaths
Carved into our bones forever
If I fall
Write my name across the gate
Soul by soul
We hold the line
Thirteen court guard squads awake
[Bridge]
Who will stay
When the sky splits open?
Who still swings
When the fear cuts clean?
I was just
Another lost soul marching
Now I’m one
Of the thirteen
[Chorus]
Thirteen blades
Standing in the dust of heaven
Thirteen oaths
Carved into our bones forever
If I fall
Write my name across the gate
Soul by soul
We hold the line
Thirteen court guard squads awake