When There Was No Line

[Verse 1]
The sky went black with wings that screamed,
A storm that wasn’t weather-made,
Wyverns circling, shadows diving,
Dragon-men in burning waves.
Orders cracked and vanished quick,
Steel met fire and broke in kind,
We held as long as mortal hands could—
Then the world outran the line.

[Pre-Chorus]
You could feel it start to buckle,
Hear the splinter, feel the bend,
Still no man among us scattered—
We just fell back, tried again.

[Chorus]
We didn’t run, we gave them ground,
Step by step, we turned around,
Fought for every shattered yard of time.
And when the line was overthrown,
When we stood but stood alone,
Two souls held what we couldn’t hold—
They were the line when there was no line.

[Verse 2]
Smoke and ash where we once stood,
Then I saw her through the flame,
Elizabeth out in the open,
Calm as if she knew no pain.
Rifle steady, breath like iron,
Shot by shot she carved her place,
Men were shouting, trying to reach her—
She just never broke her stance.

[Pre-Chorus]
At first the swarm just flowed around her,
Like she wasn’t even there,
Then the tide turned black and hungry—
Every eye was fixed to tear.

[Chorus]
We didn’t run, we gave them ground,
Step by step, we turned around,
Fought for every shattered yard of time.
And when the line was overthrown,
When we stood but stood alone,
She held fast where hope had died—
She was the line when there was no line.

[Verse 3]
Then a flash of rose in the ruin,
Amanda there through smoke and lead,
Twin pistols speaking sharp and certain,
Death in every step she tread.
Back to back they turned together,
Like they’d fought a thousand years,
Moving through that living nightmare
Without a trace of doubt or fear.

[Bridge]
It wasn’t battle—it was rhythm,
Fire and reload, turn and spin,
Like a dance the world wasn’t meant for,
But somehow they were born to win.
We lost sight as we were driven,
Dragged back through the breaking fight,
But we heard their guns still calling—
Cold and steady through the night.

[Final Chorus]
Then the horns of reinforcements,
Then the beasts began to turn,
We surged forward, rage and fury,
Every man with fire to burn.
And there they stood where we had left them,
Like the line had never gone,
Guarding ground with flawless fury,
Still together, still holding on.

[Outro]
Never seen the like before,
Never will in all my time,
Two stood fast against a nightmare—
They were the line…
When there was no line.

Outlaw folk, gritty male vocal, acoustic guitar, fiddle, harmonica, steady kick drum, dusty battlefield ballad tone