The Line They Chased

[Verse 1]
No stars above and no lamps below,
Just the creak where the black tides go,
Ships of the line in a silent brace,
Waiting on death in an unseen place.
Then a murmur ran deck to deck—
Not sail, not smoke, not flame to check…
Just a pale breath hanging there.

[Chorus]
There’s a line in the night they don’t understand,
Not smoke, not fire, not the work of man,
And the guns all turn where the pale runs thin—
That’s the mark they’ll hammer in.
Let the fleet stay low and the line draw high—
Stormbreaker answers the sky.

[Verse 2]
Mark held fast—“Keep her moving through,
If they find us, we make them rue.”
Then from the dark came a tearing cry:
“Fellgliders diving—stand and fire!”
No careful aim, no time to plot—
“Run out the guns—load grape shot!”

[Chorus]
There’s a line in the night they can start to read,
And they’re feeding it fire with growing greed,
Every broadside climbs where the pale thread bends—
And the sky itself descends.
Let them chase what won’t hold still—
We’ll answer close, and we’ll answer kill.

[Verse 3 – Andrew]
Andrew laughed with Drake’s Bane set,
“Too close now for regret!”
He fired where the shadows broke,
Iron tearing through wing and cloak,
“Keep it wide—don’t try to see—
Fill the dark and let it be!”

[Verse 4 – Amanda]
Amanda watched through rose-lit glass,
Catching shapes as the shadows passed,
“Three to port—drive them high!
Push them back where the grapeshot flies!”
Her pistols cracked in steady time—
Not to kill, but shape the line.

[Verse 5 – The Barge]
Low came the barge through smoke and roar,
Taking the hits meant for the war,
Powder passed and the guns ran hot—
Keeping Stormbreaker in the fight they sought.

[Final Chorus]
There’s a line in the night they thought was a flaw,
So they fed it thunder and iron law,
And they loosed their beasts on the falling air—
But they met their end in the scatter there.
When the wings come close and the dark turns red,
It’s iron, not fear, that keeps you fed—
And the line still burned where the brave ones stayed,
While the sky and the dark both paid.

Epic folk rock sea shanty, gritty male vocals, cinematic drums, chaotic night battle, airship vs Fellgliders, heroic