The First Wars of Men

Written by TheoDemoya

[Intro]

When gods grew quiet, men grew loud

And raised their banners at the cloud

[Verse 1]

We fought for rivers, fought for bread

For fame we’d never live to wed

We crowned the bravest, burned the kind

And called it fate to maim the mind

[Pre-Chorus]

Without the stars to judge the field

We learned the cost that mortals yield

[Chorus]

The first wars of men

We bled the ink of pen

We wrote our names in dust and then

We learned to lose again

[Verse 2]

We forged our kings from fear of night

We broke our vows by firelight

And all the while the Stone looked on

And measured what we’d done

[Pre-Chorus]

If peace is seed, it needs the rain

We watered earth with shame

[Chorus]

The first wars of men

We bled the ink of pen

We wrote our names in dust and then

We learned to lose again

[Bridge]

Remember this when heroes rise

The crown is made of fallen sighs

[Final Chorus]

The first wars of men

A chorus without end

Yet from the wreck we found a friend

The will to start again

[Outro]

Our children sleep; our watch begins