The Seeker - Red Moon Rebellion

Song for our upcoming album Crimson Princess Lyrics: Play it back… Just once more… Before the sky remembers what it took. I look at an old video tape My son is laughing in the kitchen light My wife is smiling like the war never came Like the world was still allowed to be kind Then I look outside the cracked viewport Where their bodies likely lie Under ash, under steel, under someone else’s flag And I still don’t know how to say goodbye We can’t keep going like this Ghosts in a city that forgot our names If grief is all that’s left of me Then grief will learn to aim I am the leader of the rebellion And we are ready to face anything I buried my heaven in an old tape Now I raise hell for everything Their laughter is the last clean air I have Their smile is the last unfallen star We can’t keep going like this — So we go to war They said survive. They said endure. They said wait for a better dawn But dawn is rationed. Hope is taxed. And my family is already gone Every speech I give is a funeral Every plan is a debt I owe I lead because someone has to I fight because I can’t let go We can’t keep going like this Ghosts in a city that forgot our names If grief is all that’s left of me Then grief will learn to aim I am the leader of the rebellion And we are ready to face anything I buried my heaven in an old tape Now I raise hell for everything Their laughter is the last clean air I have Their smile is the last unfallen star We can’t keep going like this — So we go to war I press play and I almost break I press stop and I almost run Then I look at the faces still breathing here And I remember what must be done Not for glory. Not for thrones. Not for the songs they’ll never sing For a boy who laughed For a wife who smiled For the end of everything that did this thing I am the leader of the rebellion And we are ready to face anything If the sky still holds their bodies Then the sky will learn to bleed Their laughter is the last clean air I have Their smile is the last unfallen star We can’t keep going like this — So we go to war Play it back… One last time… Then burn the tape And take the line.