[Intro]
[distorted vox]
Forge and filth
Fire and rot
Who holds the line
When the void runs hot? (yeah)
[Verse 1 – Salamanders]
Walk out the ash like a firedrake
Scales on my skin, see the flame wake
XVIII slapped on the pauldron plate
We don’t fall back, we incinerate
Got that black skin gleam, that Nocturne glow
Heat in my heart, that’s a real halo
We save the weak while we scorch the foe
You save disease in a rusted bowl
I’m Vulkan’s kin, I’m the forge’s son
You’re a coughing corpse with a broken lung
Talk “Grandfather”?
We got real ones
Humans behind us, we don’t lose one
[Chorus]
Salamanders
Light in the dark
We turn plague ships
Straight into sparks
You spit that rot
We burn that scheme
Promethean creed
Over your plague machine
Salamanders
Fire in steel
Every breath we take
For the lives we shield
You drip and crawl
We stand, we bleed
Promethean creed
Over your plague machine (hey!)
[Verse 2 – Death Guard]
Hear that cough in the vox line, kid?
That’s the sound of a god that lives
You fear rust ‘cause your faith too thin
We embrace the bruise, let the boils sing
We marched the long road, through warp-thick tar
Came back scarred, still we bear our scars
You light candles
We birth new stars
Each fly in the swarm is a falling shard
Your “mercy” melts when the shells fall down
Our gifts stay bloom in the poisoned ground
You hug civilians, we hug decay
Our love stay long after bones go grey
You worship heat that can flicker out
We got patience
Pox in a drought
Every cough, every drip, every stagger step
Is a prayer that your fire can’t disinfect
[Pre-Chorus – Call & Response]
[Salamanders]
You call that love? That’s a slow death curse
[Death Guard]
You call that hope? That’s a short-lived nerve
[Salamanders]
Stand in the blaze, boy, feel that worth
[Death Guard]
Kneel in the mud, let the womb of earth
[Chorus]
Salamanders
Light in the dark
We turn plague ships
Straight into sparks
You spit that rot
We burn that scheme
Promethean creed
Over your plague machine
Salamanders
Fire in steel
Every breath we take
For the lives we shield
You drip and crawl
We stand, we bleed
Promethean creed
Over your plague machine
[Bridge – Trade Bars]
[Salamanders]
Check the warplate, glowing seams
Mantle of flame on the krak-team
Pick up the child, pull ‘em from debris
You’d call that “waste” in your liturgy
[Death Guard]
We don’t flee from a failing lung
We make psalms out of every tongue
When your torch goes cold in the silent void
Our bells still ring in the rust and oil
[Salamanders]
You brag ‘bout pain like it makes you strong
We walk through it so the weak live on
Your whole flex built on dragging chains
We break ‘em off, then we break your ranks (hey!)
[Death Guard]
You swing that hammer like faith can cure
We crack that armor, your hope unsure
Your flame burns bright but it can’t stay lit
When the last breath rattles, we inherit it
[Chorus]
Salamanders
Light in the dark
We turn plague ships
Straight into sparks
You spit that rot
We burn that scheme
Promethean creed
Over your plague machine
Salamanders
Fire in steel
Every breath we take
For the lives we shield
You drip and crawl
We stand, we bleed
Promethean creed
Over your plague machine
[Outro]
[Salamanders – growled]
When the last hive falls
We still stand warm
[Death Guard – rasped]
When the last heart stops
We still transform
[Both]
Fire or filth