In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Through the wastelands and the hills
The battle has begun
Surprise attack our enemies
We'll fight till there's not one
We ride to the battlefields
With our swords and our shields
Our horses racing to the hills
Across to the Viking lands
We fight, together in war
Brothers stand as one
And never surrender
Until we shed blood
Where the heroes fight and fall
Bravest warriors standing tall
Never surrender
Never give in
Hear the agony and the battlecries
Of a thousand men who slowly die
Their lives they have sacrificed
In the fields of no return
Death and hatred to mankind
The gods are a witness to our crime
The march to death is done
One for all and all for one
We fight, together in war
Brothers stand as one
And never surrender
Until we shed blood
Where the heroes fight and fall
Bravest warriors standing tall
Never surrender
The Crusade.
[Solo]
Out in the bloodied fields
They raise their mighty swords and their shields
Where the heroes fought and heroes died
The bravest warriors, and those who survived
The Crusade
We fight, together in war
Brothers stand as one
And never surrender
Until we shed blood
Where the heroes fight and fall
Bravest warriors standing tall
Never surrender
We fight, together in war
Brothers stand as one
And never surrender
Until we shed blood
Where the heroes fight and fall
Bravest warriors standing tall
Never surrender
The Crusade.
Never surrender, the Crusade
Never surrender, the Crusade
Never surrender, the Crusade
Never surrender, the Crusade
Never surrender, the Crusade
The battle has begun
Surprise attack our enemies
We'll fight till there's not one
We ride to the battlefields
With our swords and our shields
Our horses racing to the hills
Across to the Viking lands
We fight, together in war
Brothers stand as one
And never surrender
Until we shed blood
Where the heroes fight and fall
Bravest warriors standing tall
Never surrender
Never give in
Hear the agony and the battlecries
Of a thousand men who slowly die
Their lives they have sacrificed
In the fields of no return
Death and hatred to mankind
The gods are a witness to our crime
The march to death is done
One for all and all for one
We fight, together in war
Brothers stand as one
And never surrender
Until we shed blood
Where the heroes fight and fall
Bravest warriors standing tall
Never surrender
The Crusade.
[Solo]
Out in the bloodied fields
They raise their mighty swords and their shields
Where the heroes fought and heroes died
The bravest warriors, and those who survived
The Crusade
We fight, together in war
Brothers stand as one
And never surrender
Until we shed blood
Where the heroes fight and fall
Bravest warriors standing tall
Never surrender
We fight, together in war
Brothers stand as one
And never surrender
Until we shed blood
Where the heroes fight and fall
Bravest warriors standing tall
Never surrender
The Crusade.
Never surrender, the Crusade
Never surrender, the Crusade
Never surrender, the Crusade
Never surrender, the Crusade
Never surrender, the Crusade
Lyrics submitted by Equilan
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