For the Horde - Red Banners Rise
World of Warcraft · Horde
The story in the song
Red banners rise for the Horde in this original cinematic World of Warcraft fan tribute - a tribal folk-metal anthem about outcasts, old scars, and a faction that chooses to stand together when the Void comes crawling.
Built as a call-and-response duet between an orc-born war voice and a blood elf voice, the song moves from Durotar dust and Eversong grief into a full battle-choir oath.
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Lyrics
From dust and fang, from flame and scar
We hear the drums beneath the stars
One blood, one cry, one iron accord
Red banners rise
For the Horde
I was born where the red sun breaks the stone
With a wolf at my side
And a blade of bone
Durotar dust in my lungs like fire
Every scar became a funeral pyre
I was raised where the golden spires burn bright
Where the dead still sing through the veil of night
Eversong weeps, but it will not fall
I hear the ancient war drums call
Not the same blood
Not the same home
But none of us stands alone
We are the fire no darkness can hold
We are the oath in the marrow and bone
When the Void comes crawling to swallow the dawn
We stand, we roar, we carry on
Red banners rise where the storm winds roar
One blood, one blade, for the Horde
Red banners rise, let the whole world know
We are the thunder below
From Mulgore plains to the Amani trees
From shattered gates to the blackened seas
Tauren horns and the troll drums pound
Wake the roots deep under the ground
Forsaken hearts with a deathless flame
Blood elf steel in the Sunwell's name
Goblin spark and a vulpine grin
Every outcast becomes our kin
No chain can bind us
No crown commands
We choose the war with open hands
We are the fire no darkness can hold
We are the oath in the marrow and bone
When the Void comes crawling to swallow the dawn
We stand, we roar, we carry on
Red banners rise where the storm winds roar
One blood, one blade, for the Horde
Red banners rise, let the whole world know
We are the thunder below
When midnight falls on Silvermoon
We strike like wolves beneath the moon
When Harandar glows with buried light
We march through roots into the fight
For every exile, every scar
For every child beneath red stars
For every name the world ignored
We lift our cry
For the Horde
Lok'tar
Ogar
Lok'tar
Ogar
Rise, rise, red banners rise
Fire in the blood and storm in the eyes
Rise, rise, red banners rise
Victory calls from the war-torn skies
We are the fire no darkness can hold
We are the oath in the marrow and bone
When the Void comes crawling to swallow the dawn
We stand, we roar, we carry on
Red banners rise where the storm winds roar
One blood, one blade, for the Horde
Red banners rise, let the whole world know
We are the thunder below
From dust and fang
From flame and scar
We are the Horde
Wherever we are