I don’t want them to say that we were cowards.
I don’t want them to feel we were afraid.
We’d so much to lose, but what else could we choose than to fight unto the burning gates of hell?
I don’t want them to say these words were hollow.
I don’t want them to feel they were untrue.
We’d so much to prove, what else could we do than to fight up to the burning gates of hell?
Cross this world with you,
Holding on to
The vow that we’ll see this promise through.
I don’t want them to blame us for their sorrows.
I don’t want them to feel we let ‘em down.
God we’re such desperate fools, treating our words like jewels,
And we fight unto the burning gates of hell.
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