Vocalist: Obadiah Brown-Beach

Composer: Robert Wolf

Songwriter: David Lin

All you would show to working men Is your crooked crescent lips

Their limbs and their throats just hang by threads

Wrapped around your fingertips

I raise my sword as a shield

Harden my soul into steel

Yes, my sword may shatter

And explode like daggers

But off of me they’ll ricochet

Right back at you like pouring rain

Oh, you trap a thousand nameless pawns

Without cages, without chains

The ones who we lost from your wars we fought

Were all puppets in your game

Ah

(I raise my sword)

(Harden my soul)

Ah

(I raise my sword)

I raise my sword as a shield

Harden my soul into steel

Yes, my sword may shatter

And explode like daggers

But off of me they’ll ricochet

Right back at you like pouring

Reign from the iron fists for life

Is a burden we can’t lift

I once had the fight of a radiant knight

Before I learned that justice may never exist

Is it all for naught?

Is there use for fighting on?

I raise my sword as a shield

Harden my soul into steel

Yes, my sword may shatter

And explode like daggers

But off of me they’ll ricochet

Right back at you like pouring rain