[Intro]
Iron dawn
Hooves and steel
Storm of crowns
Time to kneel
[Verse 1]
Banner in the black wind
Frankish shield wall
Breathing steam
Dust above the dead fields
Prayer and iron
Faith and steel
Crescent at the riverbend
Gold and blood in every hand
He rides out
A granite oath
Hammer in the heartland
[Chorus]
Charles Martel
Hammer at the gate
Stand in the fire
Bend the fate
From the bones of war you shape the world
Charles Martel
Hammer at the gate
[Verse 2]
Cold eyes on the hillside
Lines of mail and broken kings
Whispers of a shattered Christendom
He answers with a ring of swings
Thunder where their charge breaks
Splintered lances
Shattered jaw
Every fallen brother in his roar
Grinds their glory into straw
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Not a crown on his brow
Just the scars of the vow
If the cross is to stand
It is carved in my hand
[spoken growl]
Let the battle write my name
[crescendo]
Steel sings
Earth shakes
One man
World wakes
[Chorus]