Banners Over Seven Cities

[Intro] [Verse 1] We crossed where the dunes devour the sun, Standard torn, yet higher it is held. Drums like heartbeats under armor’s hum, Thirst-worn prayers on lips that will not yield. Names of the fallen stitched into the cloth, Threaded with salt, with sand, with loss; Every step a vow, every mile a cost— We are the rumor the storm can’t cross. [Chorus] Raise the ash-stained banners over Seven Cities, Let the desert bear our memory home. Through the whirlwind’s howl and a sky of embers, We walk the broken road—together, not alone. If the night must take us, let it take our shadows; Our names stay b*****g in the marrow of stone. Raise the ash-stained banners over Seven Cities— And carry the oath back home. [Verse 2] Bronze on the walls, watch-fires thin, Mirage of a harbor that never draws near. Letters from mothers sewn under skin, Steel answers grief when grief calls here. The map is a scar the cartographers hid, The compass a story of duty and dread; We drink from the silence where legends live, And speak in the tongue of the unnamed d**d. [Chorus] Raise the ash-stained banners over Seven Cities, Let the desert bear our memory home. Through the whirlwind’s howl and a sky of embers, We walk the broken road—together, not alone. If the night must take us, let it take our shadows; Our names stay b*****g in the marrow of stone. Raise the ash-stained banners over Seven Cities— And carry the oath back home. [Bridge] Step. Breathe. Bleed. Believe. Dust is a witness. Stone will receive. We are the miles, we are the flame, We are the vow without a name. [Verse 3] Under a moon like a broken coin, We share the last of the water and light. Hands on the banner, fingers entwined— If one should fall, the others will rise. The desert keeps secrets it can’t forgive; We barter our years for one more stride— Where ruins remember those who lived, We plant our standard and open the sky. [Final Chorus] Raise the ash-stained banners over Seven Cities, Let the desert bear our memory home. Through the whirlwind’s howl and a sky of embers, We walk the broken road—together, never alone. If the night must take us, let it take our shadows; Our names ring bright where the cold stars roam. Raise the ash-stained banners over Seven Cities— And carry the oath back home. [Outro]