Verse 1

We stood at the edge of the agreement

and watched the language turn to threat

The fires jumped the ridge by morning

and no one in the hall rose yet

We counted what we gave in loyalty

and measured it against the cost

A door that opens into nothing

is still a door — and we were lost

Chorus

What the allies know, they keep behind their teeth

What the mountains take, no treaty can retrieve

We are standing in the smoke of someone else's call

We are standing in the summer, watching summer fall

Verse 2

A voice that said the war was wrong

is packed away in numbered years

The blazes cross the southern borders

and the assembly meets to sneer

We lay our tributes at the threshold

for the ones who didn't stay

We rehearse the old formations

then are told to put them away

Bridge

There is no clean translation

for what a country does to its own

There is no careful navigation

when the storm comes and the summit's stone

We have been the loyal ones

we have been the careful ones

and the sky above the mountain

does not care which side we're on

Chorus

What the allies know, they keep behind their teeth

What the mountains take, no treaty can retrieve

We are standing in the smoke of someone else's call

We are standing in the summer, watching summer fall

Outro

We are standing in the summer

we are standing in the heat

what the allies know

they carry incomplete

Instrumental Outro

How did it make you feel?

A new song arrives tomorrow.