Lyric

Before the sun can crown the roofs the black signal cuts the dawn

A warning tone for tyrants and a sentence for the boy who never healed

They need my wings to break the storm that marches toward our sleeping towns

But every takeoff tears the scar that sealed my childhood into night

When sirens stole my home away I learned that mercy could be killed

My mother vanished in the smoke my father in the falling fire

The dawn became a courtroom then and vengeance wrote my only oath

So now I answer every raid with thunder colder than their lies

Black signal in the dawn I rise

A darkened wing between their guns and every soul they hunt below

I shatter iron skies for those who still believe the light can live

But every victory leaves me colder than the clouds that hide the sun

They call me savior call me death and neither name can make me whole

I keep the line I pay the cost I drown the dark in darker fire

Still no one waits for me at home

The hangar lights are pale as ghosts when all the cheering fades away

My comrades see a legend there a blade that never bends or breaks

But in the glass beside my bunk I meet the child beneath the ash

And hear the quiet asking why the living still returned as less

The enemy now flees my turn before the warning lock can sing

I move through flame like punishment and leave their proud formations torn

Yet every burning arc I draw writes one more question on the sky

If justice rides my wings tonight why does my heart still land in grief

Black signal in the dawn I rise

A darkened wing between their guns and every soul they hunt below

I shatter iron skies for those who still believe the light can live

But every victory leaves me colder than the clouds that hide the sun

They call me savior call me death and neither name can make me whole

I keep the line I pay the cost I drown the dark in darker fire

Still no one waits for me at home

I did not choose to love the dark the dark was all that answered me

When every prayer was drowned by fire and every hand I knew was gone

So now I guard the waking world with all the ruin in my veins

A shield of grief a blade of dawn too broken ever to be saved

Black signal in the dawn behold

I climb through sorrow blacker than the smoke that made my name

I break their engines split their pride and drive their hunger from our skies

For every child still hiding from the fire I turn their night away

But when the daylight floods the base no warmth can cross the distance in

No medal mends the ruined house no triumph lifts the buried names

I save the world at dawn and lose myself by morning

Black signal in the dawn alone forever