Banners - Volker

Pushed back inside the outpost high on the shores under foreign skies

With starvation nigh their banners fly as they choose how they shall die

They gear their men for one last stand reinforcements are nowhere in sight

Raise your sword and claim your reward on the battlefield tonight

For their banners

They are fighting

They are falling

For the legend

For their children

To grow strong

Through the night the hopeless fight rages on through the smoke and the flames

The blood runs cold through the young and the old and the bold die to honor

their names

The horizon bleeds as the dawn it feeds on the blood-drenched fields of war

Those that remain their spirits wane pushed back to the edge of the shore

For their banners

They are striving

They are dying

For the glory

Of their kingdom

For their honor

Lay your head by the riverbed, where waters run red

Lay your head by the riverbed, where waters run red

Take my last words and bear them on the wind

Across the shore to my kin

I see the sunrise for the last time

And if I die alone, I’ll dream of home

On the horizon I see a banner

As a ship comes sailing in

On the sunrise I see a banner

As a ship comes sailing in

Through the fog I see the banners

As the ships come sailing in

The men around me start to cry

That the ships come sailing in

We find the will to stand for one last time

As the ships come sailing in

And line up together side-by-side

As the ships come sailing in

On the horizon I see the banners

As the fleet comes sailing in