[Verse 1]
Across the frost-bit plain
We rise from bone and flame
The banners bite the sky
Like wolves that learned to fly
Hooves carve blackened lines
Through ash and frozen pines
The elders call your name
And feed the fire with grain
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear the earth reply
Hear the old songs climb
From the throat of night
To the edge of time
[Chorus]
Hordes of Khan!
Ride on, ride on
Hordes of Khan!
Break dawn, break dawn
Hordes of Khan!
Thunder in our blood
Hordes of Khan!
We are one, we are one
[Verse 2]
The eagle on the pole
Keeps watch above the snow
Our iron under moon
Turns the valley into doom
We drink from silver cups
Then kick the embers up
The steppe remembers well
The names it dare not tell
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear the earth reply
Hear the old songs climb
From the throat of night
To the edge of time
[Chorus]
Hordes of Khan!
Ride on, ride on
Hordes of Khan!
Break dawn, break dawn
Hordes of Khan!
Thunder in our blood
Hordes of Khan!
We are one, we are one
[Bridge]
[Throat-sung chant]
Ayy-oo, ayy-oo
The sky bends low
Ayy-oo, ayy-oo
Where the banner goes
[Turnaround]
The tumur khuur cries
Like winter on the blade
The riders answer back
In the stampede we made
[Final Chorus]
Hordes of Khan!
Ride on, ride on
Hordes of Khan!
Break dawn, break dawn
Hordes of Khan!
Thunder in our blood
Hordes of Khan!
We are one, we are one
Hordes of Khan!
No chain can stay
Hordes of Khan!
We own the plain
Hordes of Khan!
Sing with the hooves
Hordes of Khan!
Nothing to lose