“Field of Warriors” is a Gothic Americana memorial hymn dedicated to the fallen soldiers of the United States. Blending haunting atmosphere, cemetery imagery, melancholic rock instrumentation, and solemn spiritual reflection, this track delivers a dark patriotic elegy about sacrifice, memory, and the cost of freedom. Lyrics: The flag flies over these stones Markers of men who walked knowingly into death So you could have your chance to live Rows of white beneath the sky Mothers still asking why Young men buried shoulder to shoulder Names cut deep in marble colder Some were barely seventeen Some were twenty-one Hear the thunder of the gun Letters folded in their coat Last goodbyes they hastily wrote They knew the cost before the charge Still they ran into the barrage Now the wind rolls through this field of warriors Your freedom's all yours because of this field of warriors When the bullets were spent They took their bayonets by the handle And after it was over They were beckoned by the candle Dying face down in the mud and the blood They kept crawling forward as long as they could Praying low with trembling breath Hoping there was paradise after death Many had to go to never watch their children grow Now the flag waves above those who'll never get older All the tragedy and the love of these heroic American soldiers They knew the cost before the charge Still they ran into the barrage Now the wind rolls through this field of warriors Your freedom's all yours because of this field of warriors When the bullets were spent They took their bayonets by the handle And after it was over They were beckoned by the candle People visit and they read the names But they don't think about the hands folded Long forgotten and longer molded Beneath the ground their bodies lie Show 'em respect and salute the sky Now the wind rolls through this field of warriors Every marker bears the loss Of the ones who paid the cost And with the final bugle call Heaven opened up for all And they found their way by the candle
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