Rogue Shadow Rising

In the static of a dying star I hear the engines call Rogue Shadow cutting blackness carrying us all Under armor, under orders under thunder made of steel Every oath becomes a weapon every wound becomes a seal From the ash, from the chain from the storm beneath our skin We are more than what the darkness tried to make us in Vader carved the silence with a red command Made the wounded galaxy kneel to a gloved hand He built his throne from secrets, fear, and flame Then called the broken useful when they answered to a name Juno flew by numbers cold in Imperial blue Till the stars became a mirror and the lie came through She held the course steady when the whole sky broke A rebel in the cockpit where the old world choked Kota lost his daylight not the fire in his voice A blind old general still could see the harder choice He drank with ghosts but rose again to lead With a scar for every soldier and a prayer for those in need PROXY wore a thousand faces smiling through the code Built to strike the friend he followed down the road Metal heart, fractured spark mission torn in two A weapon learns devotion when the orders come untrue Corellia whispered Gather, sign, endure Bail lit a signal no prison could obscure Mon Mothma's warning moved like fire through the night Garm brought the fleet and Leia raised the light Names in the smoke hands in the flame The Empire wanted silence We answered back with names We are the embers under iron We are the thunder in the chains When the black mask calls us silence We answer back with names Juno in the starlight Kota through the pain PROXY in the wreckage Maris in the rain Rogue Shadow rising Over worlds undone The Force unleashed our sorrow Till our sorrow became the sun We won't kneel we won't fade We are more than what he made Rogue Shadow rising Rogue Shadow rising On Felucia, Maris trembled under poisoned bloom A Padawan with claws grief howling in the gloom Shaak Ti's echo lingered where the wild hearts cried Not every fall is final when the fallen choose to rise Kota held the line with scars instead of sight War may break the body not the right to fight In the hollow of the Death Star chains began to sing Hope can crawl from darkness and still dethrone a king Juno saw the cost behind the mission and the blade Saw the boy inside the storm saw the debt that must be paid But this is not his anthem not his lonely crown This is for the ones who kept the spark from burning down Bail for the funding Mon for the word Garm for the warships no tyrant had heard Leia for the symbol carved from loss into dawn A crest for the fallen a vow moving on Kamino made echoes in a sterile rain Vader counted copies trying to perfect a chain But no soul is a number no heart is a design When love becomes a beacon And choice cuts through the line We are the embers under iron We are the thunder in the chains When the black mask calls us silence We answer back with names Juno in the starlight Kota through the pain PROXY in the wreckage Maris in the rain Rogue Shadow rising Over worlds undone The Force unleashed our sorrow Till our sorrow became the sun I hear the mask like thunder Serve, and be remade I hear the cockpit warning Still I fly through the blade I hear Kota laughing Through the smoke and the scars I hear Maris crying From the carnivorous stars I hear PROXY glitching Failure in his tone Yet the broken machine Would not leave them alone Every chain has a weakness Every tyrant has a name Every shadow has an engine Every spark becomes a flame Pull the destroyer from the sky Break the sentence, burn the lie Let the hunters hear us now Let the iron stars come down We were scattered, we were scarred Now the dark has gone too far We are the embers under iron We are the thunder in the chains When the black mask calls us silence We answer back with names Juno in the starlight Kota through the pain PROXY in the wreckage Maris in the rain Rogue Shadow rising Over worlds undone The Force unleashed our sorrow Till our sorrow became the sun Rogue Shadow, carry the living Old master, guard the flame For the pilots, droids, and generals For the fallen without graves Not for glory, not for crowns But for every star the Empire tried to drown