ASHES OF THE MARCH

**[Verse 1]**
Engines roar beneath the night
Steel awakens, searchlights bite
Orders fall like rain of lead
Another name, another dead

Boots keep marching through the smoke
Every promise turns to broken hope
Flags are burning in the rain
Tell me, who will bear the pain?

**[Pre-Chorus]**
We were born beneath the same sky
Why are we taught to learn to die?

**[Chorus]**
**MARCH! MARCH! INTO THE FIRE!**
**BUILD THE WAR, FEED THE WIRE!**
**WHOSE BLOOD WILL PAY THE PRICE?**
**WHO DECIDES WHO LIVES TONIGHT?**

**RISE! RISE! AND BREAK THE CHAIN!**
**NO MORE GLORY, NO MORE PAIN!**
**WHEN THE DRUMS BEGIN TO FADE**
**WE'LL COUNT THE GRAVES WE MADE!**

**[Verse 2]**
Iron thunder shakes the ground
Blackened cities crumble down
Generals speak from distant rooms
While soldiers walk beneath the fumes

Medals shine beneath the light
But mothers never call it right
History writes the victor's name
While every grave remembers pain

**[Pre-Chorus]**
One command can light the sky
One command can make a thousand cry

**[Chorus]**
**MARCH! MARCH! INTO THE FIRE!**
**BUILD THE WAR, FEED THE WIRE!**
**WHOSE BLOOD WILL PAY THE PRICE?**
**WHO DECIDES WHO LIVES TONIGHT?**

**RISE! RISE! AND BREAK THE CHAIN!**
**NO MORE GLORY, NO MORE PAIN!**
**WHEN THE DRUMS BEGIN TO FADE**
**WE'LL COUNT THE GRAVES WE MADE!**

**[Bridge]**
CAN YOU HEAR THEM?
Underneath the thunder!
CAN YOU SEE THEM?
Buried six feet under!

No victory
Can bring them back
No enemy
Can fill the cracks

**WE ARE NOT MACHINES!**
**WE ARE NOT YOUR WAR!**
**WE ARE NOT THE NUMBERS**
**YOU CAN THROW INTO THE STORM!**

**[Final Chorus]**
**MARCH! MARCH! BUT NOT TO DIE!**
**LET THE WAR MACHINES COLLIDE!**
**DROP THE WEAPONS, BREAK THE LINE!**
**LET THE LIVING SEE THE LIGHT!**

**RISE! RISE! AND BREAK THE CHAIN!**
**NO MORE GLORY, NO MORE PAIN!**
**WHEN THE FINAL DRUMS ARE GONE**
**LET THE WORLD MARCH ON!**

**[Outro]**
The guns fall silent.
The smoke disappears.
And beneath the ruins...
we are still here.