Under The Barrier

Stone breathes, old chains moan Blue haze burns over broken stone No road out, no mercy shown Another soul thrown under the dome They sent me down where the daylight dies Past rusted chains and watchful eyes The ore shines blue in a convict's hand While the king's war bleeds a prison land Twelve mages raised the sky-wall high But the spell bent wrong in the winter sky Now blades make law where the black birds roam And every prayer strikes the dome Old Camp guards the ore and the throne New Camp hoards it to break through stone The Brotherhood dreams in the swampweed smoke And whispers the Sleeper's name as the old mines choke Under the dome, under the burning sky We dig for the crown and we learn to survive Three banners rise where the lost men crawl One nameless soul will outwalk them all Under the dome, where the dark things sing No saint, no savior, no golden king But when the barrier starts to groan The Colony will know the Nameless One A black-robed mage reads the cracks of fate Beyond the camps and their iron gates Fire and water watch old wounds While something stirs in the temple's gloom The guards sell fear, the rebels sell hope The swamp sells visions through sacred smoke Every friend has a price to pay Every promise can rot by day Ore in the mine and blood in the rain Faith in the swamp and chains in the vein Voices below call louder than drums Something ancient waits for us Under the dome, under the burning sky We dig for the crown and we learn to survive Three banners rise where the lost men crawl One nameless soul will outwalk them all Under the dome, where the dark things sing No saint, no savior, no golden king But when the barrier starts to groan The Colony will know the Nameless One I came with nothing but a letter and breath No family crest, no oath, no debt You can take my name, you can break my bones But I will not die as another stone If the sky is a cage and the earth is a wound I'll cut a path through the heart of the gloom When every camp has claimed its throne Remember the one who walked alone Under the dome, under the burning sky We dig for the crown and we learn to survive Three banners fall, but the echoes call One nameless soul will outlive them all Under the dome, where the dark things sing No saint, no savior, no golden king And when the barrier breaks like stone The Colony will know the Nameless One Blue haze fading, black birds flown A legend wakes where no name was known Under the dome, under the stone The Colony remembers the Nameless One