[Intro] Hooves on stone Smoke in the sky Through the gate We ride or die [Verse] The morning broke in crimson On towers burned and black We rode beneath the ravens With vengeance at our back The streets were graves of silence The fountains choked with dust The iron doors were open The marble halls were rust [Pre-Chorus] No child sang in the market square No bells rang out in morning air But through the smoke and through the hate We rode through the ashen gate [Chorus] Ride through the Ashen Gate Ride where the fallen wait Steel in the storm and fire in the reins Thunder is calling the kingdom again Ride through the Ashen Gate Ride into war and fate Over the ruins, under the flame We ride for the lost and we ride in their name [Verse] The banners of the traitors Still hung above the square I tore them from the towers And cast them to the air My brothers rode beside me With faces carved from stone Each man became a fortress Each heart became a throne [Pre-Chorus] The ashes rose beneath our tread Like spirits waking from the dead And every sword began to sing The broken city has a king [Chorus] Ride through the Ashen Gate Ride where the fallen wait Steel in the storm and fire in the reins Thunder is calling the kingdom again Ride through the Ashen Gate Ride into war and fate Over the ruins, under the flame We ride for the lost and we ride in their name [Instrumental] Gallop of iron Drums of the brave Smoke over stone No kingdom is a grave [Bridge] If walls could speak, they would curse the night If stones could bleed, they would demand the fight So let our horses strike the ground Till every buried voice is found [Breakdown] Ride Ride Through smoke Through fire [Build-up] The gates behind us disappeared The road ahead was blood and fear But no man turned, no heart grew late We rode through the ashen gate [Chorus] Ride through the Ashen Gate Ride where the fallen wait Steel in the storm and fire in the reins Thunder is calling the kingdom again Ride through the Ashen Gate Ride into war and fate Over the ruins, under the flame We ride for the lost and we ride in their name [Chorus] Ride through the Ashen Gate Ride with the hand of fate Let every coward remember the sound When iron returns to the burial ground Ride through the Ashen Gate Ride till the heavens shake Over the ruins, under the flame We ride for the lost and we ride in their name [Outro] Through the gate Through the flame Iron rides In the fallen name