Crystal Tide Depths

Execute, execute, execute The door blows,

the room goes white Clear room one,

boots like thunder Smoke and shadow

eat the light

Return fire from the dark room

The whole wall answers back

Two go down in the first hard breath And the stairwell cuts

to black

Dusk, pull the light down

Let the colors hold their line

Stars forward on my shoulder And the fallen on my mind

We run towards danger When the whole street turns to dust I

am still here, standing for them I am still here after dusk

Getting back to the FOB

After doing some E4 shit

Dust caked up on my armor Laughing like we weren’t in it

Hangar lights on body armor T-walls holding back the night

Bird line humming in the distance Red lens cutting through the light

We were

staging by the gear racks Checking straps and killing time Secret Squirrel

meant classified Need-to-know and down the line Maps

were spread across a crate top Call signs swallowed by the sound

Down range, you learn the

difference

Between standing tall and standing ground

Dusk,

pull the

light down

Let the colors hold their line Stars forward on my shoulder And

the fallen on my mind We run towards danger When the whole

street turns to dust I am still here,

standing for them I am still here after dusk

Dusk,

pull the light down Let the room fall still and deep I

have stood for men in silence

I have kept what I must keep Stars forward,

never backward That is how we crossed the

dust We run towards danger

We do what honor asks of us

Dusk, pull

the light down Let the colors hold their line Stars forward on

my shoulder And the fallen on my mind We run towards danger

When the whole street turns to dust I am still here,

standing for them I am still here after dusk Dusk,

pull the light down Let the night receive the cost I will

carry what I carried I will honor who we lost If the

dark comes close around me Let it find me standing up I

am still here, worn and breathing

I am still

here

after dusk

Forward Operating

Base

The night is

almost blue I let

the

evening hold the line

But it does not bury you I set your name down softly

Like a flag that never folds Ooh Stars forward after dusk