Wouldn't Stand Down

Sound the deck Light the crown Old ship Won't stand down We woke to red on every screen No medals waiting in the bay Just ancient dust and Banished guns And one more impossible day I felt the Ark beneath my shadow Felt their boots inside my frame If they call me out of service Let them try to kill the flame We lost the years We lost the route But I still hear my people shout If fire is all we have left now Then fire is what goes out This is the ship that wouldn't stand down This is the crew that would not break Hands on the rail when the stars go black Hearts in the hull when the old decks shake Call us lost, call us gone Write that line and watch it drown Spirit of Fire, old war, new dawn This is the ship that wouldn't stand down No Infinity in the distance No fleet to make the sky behave Just Cutter's calm and a Spartan's silence And the line our pilots gave I have foundries under armor I have ghosts in every wall Every corridor remembers Who kept walking when worlds would fall Banished claws on Forerunner stone Signal fires through my bones They brought a kingdom to the Ark We brought a home This is the ship that wouldn't stand down This is the crew that would not break Hands on the rail when the stars go black Hearts in the hull when the old decks shake Call us lost, call us gone Write that line and watch it drown Spirit of Fire, old war, new dawn This is the ship that wouldn't stand down If every cannon runs empty We will load the dark with names If every engine falls silent I will keep their vow in frame If the future does not know us We will teach it what we mean By a flame that feeds on duty By a light that won't retreat Stand down- No Not now Not here Not while one deck light burns clear This is the ship that wouldn't stand down This is the crew that would not break Hands on the rail when the stars go black Hearts in the hull when the old decks shake Call us lost, call us gone Write that line and watch it drown Spirit of Fire, old war, new dawn This is the ship that wouldn't stand down Old war New dawn Spirit of Fire Still holding on