At dawn envoy arrives
Morning of October 28th
"No day" proven by deed
Descendants of Sparta,
Athens and Crete!
Look north, ready to fight
Enemies charge from the hills
To arms! Facing defeat !
There's no surrender ! There's no retreat !
Time after time
Force their enemies back to the line..
Call to arms banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading "Freedom or death!"
Blood of king Leonidas
Air raid pounding the land
Bombers are flying both day and night
Endure six days of rain
Dropped by invaders bomb raid in vain
Strike hard, the tables have turned
Drive them back over the hills
At arms! Just like before
Soldiers, civilians, Hellas at war
By their own hand
Forced the enemy out of their land..
Call to arms, banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading "Freedom or death!"
Blood of king Leonidas
Just like their ancestors ages ago
Fought in the face of defeat
Those three hundred men
Left a pride to uphold
Freedom of death in effect..
Then, now again
Blood of heroes saving their land !
Call to arms, banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading "Freedom or death !"
Blood of king Leonidas
Call to arms, banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading "Freedom or death !"
Blood of king Leonidas !
Morning of October 28th
"No day" proven by deed
Descendants of Sparta,
Athens and Crete!
Look north, ready to fight
Enemies charge from the hills
To arms! Facing defeat !
There's no surrender ! There's no retreat !
Time after time
Force their enemies back to the line..
Call to arms banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading "Freedom or death!"
Blood of king Leonidas
Air raid pounding the land
Bombers are flying both day and night
Endure six days of rain
Dropped by invaders bomb raid in vain
Strike hard, the tables have turned
Drive them back over the hills
At arms! Just like before
Soldiers, civilians, Hellas at war
By their own hand
Forced the enemy out of their land..
Call to arms, banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading "Freedom or death!"
Blood of king Leonidas
Just like their ancestors ages ago
Fought in the face of defeat
Those three hundred men
Left a pride to uphold
Freedom of death in effect..
Then, now again
Blood of heroes saving their land !
Call to arms, banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading "Freedom or death !"
Blood of king Leonidas
Call to arms, banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading "Freedom or death !"
Blood of king Leonidas !
Contributed by giorgio - 2012/4/27 - 08:25
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Lyrics by Pär Sundström and Joakim Brodén
Music by by Joakim Brodén
Album: Coat of Arms
"Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks" - Winston L. S. Churchill
Coat of Arms is the sixth studio album by Swedish power metal band Sabaton.
The first track is about the Greco-Italian War during WWII.