歌詞

They gave me wings of midnight steel and called me judgment from the sky

I learned to wear the face of death where frightened pilots dared not fly

But when the engines start to hum I hear a distant cradle song

A broken echo of the home I lost and cannot follow long

My mother sang beneath the rain and held me through the sirens howl

My father stood before the flames and taught my shaking hands to vow

Now every takeoff splits the dawn and wakes the child I buried deep

I climb to kill yet somewhere still that child can only weep

The Reaper Who Still Hears Lullabies in the roar of battle cries

I cut through iron storms and leave the dawn in fragments through the sky

They fear my wings they curse my name yet I still hear my mother sing

A little song of candlelight that breaks beneath the guns and wind

I am the shadow guarding life with hands that learned to answer fire

But every victory leaves me cold and farther from what I desired

I bear the crown of death alone and still I ache for home

My squadron lifts their glasses high and cheers the kills beside my name

They see a savior in the dark a blade that turns the tide of flame

But when the hangar doors are closed the silence fills the room with ghosts

And in the mirror of my mask I meet the child I left in smoke

The enemy now breaks in fear before my warning tones can rise

I move like grief through burning clouds and split their leaders from the skies

Yet every falling wreck below becomes another cradle gone

If I avenge the dead with death why does the night keep singing on

The Reaper Who Still Hears Lullabies in the roar of battle cries

I cut through iron storms and leave the dawn in fragments through the sky

They fear my wings they curse my name yet I still hear my mother sing

A little song of candlelight that breaks beneath the guns and wind

I am the shadow guarding life with hands that learned to answer fire

But every victory leaves me cold and farther from what I desired

I bear the crown of death alone and still I ache for 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 door I knew was gone

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

A child of war a living blade who still remembers lullabies

The Reaper Who Still Hears Lullabies now climbs through blood red morning light

I tear their wings from heaven for the children still afraid at night

No tyrant keeps the sky while I can turn their thunder back to flame

But when the sirens fade away I hear that little song again

It follows me through empty rooms through medals through the praise of men

I save their dawn and lose my own I land alive yet never home

The strongest ghost the heavens know still longs for arms that cannot return