This Time

Friends listen closely, I won't say this twice

Hope's running out and we haven't much time

Please understand that the life we once planned on is over (over)

Now is the time you must fight for your lives

The battle is on, you're already inside

Don't turn back now, there's nowhere to hide

Nowhere to build a new world

Nowhere to start anew

Here, now is all that we've got

Ready or not, there's a war to be fought

Only one way through

This time, the ways of the past we'll get over

We'll climb, enlighten a new state of mind

And now, I'll stand with you shoulder to shoulder

Out of the ashes, a new flame ignite

Rise up from shadows and into the light

We'll stand undivided, our futures aligned

A new brotherhood this time

This warning is dire, my words you must hear

A kingdom in shambles, our downfall is near

Yet I still believe that the peace we'll achieve's growing closer (closer)

But first, blood must spill like the wine at a feast

The calm only comes once the carnage has ceased

Fight or die, there'll be no release

No way to avoid the warfare

No way to escape this strife

Hear now, listen to me

This time retreat spells our final defeat

We must win our lives

This time, the ways of the past we'll get over

We'll climb, enlighten a new state of mind

And now, I'll stand with you shoulder to shoulder

Out of the ashes, a new flame ignite

Rise up from shadows and into the light

We'll stand undivided, our futures aligned

A new brotherhood, it's time

The world sees what we're made of

We change the spite to love

(It's time) to save our fate

And walk beside the human race

The past is gone and soon behind us

Victory through trust and kindness

Heal now, we will restore

The path we've been shown too long fighting our own

We will win this war

This time, the ways of the past we'll get over

We'll climb, enlighten a new state of mind

And now, I'll stand with you shoulder to shoulder

Out of the ashes, a new flame ignite

Rise up from shadows and into the light

We'll stand undivided, our futures aligned

A new brotherhood, this time