Not Theirs to Take
World of Warcraft · All Classes
The story in the song
All thirteen classes. One oath. "Not Theirs to Take" is a World of Warcraft anthem about Horde and Alliance defenders carrying the cost of protecting the people behind them.
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Lyrics
You want our world?
Then face what war has made of us.
My shield is split, my knuckles bleed;
I'm still the wall my people need.
Let giants learn what flesh can do -
I take the blow that won't reach you.
I go where marching armies fail;
A drop of venom tips the scale.
No songs will name the knife you need;
The dark has taught me where kings bleed.
Hold the line! Let the heavens break!
This is our world - not theirs to take!
Thirteen paths, one oath to keep -
We stand so someone else can sleep!
Azeroth, hear the vow we make:
This is our world - not theirs to take!
Fangs at my side, no chain between;
We stalk the paths no map has seen.
One mark, one breath, one arrow flown -
The wild has never fought alone.
I fold the miles; I turn the tide
When walls collapse and towers fall,
I'll carve a doorway through it all.
I've seen the righteous lose their way,
Their golden armor hide decay.
The Light I bear is not a throne -
It means you never bleed alone.
I mend your wounds with threads of light;
I walk where whispers swallow sight.
The Void keeps calling out my name -
I take its power, not its chain.
Hold the line! Let the heavens break!
This is our world - not theirs to take!
Thirteen paths, one oath to keep -
We stand so someone else can sleep!
Azeroth, hear the vow we make:
This is our world - not theirs to take!
I do not own the storm I call;
I ask, and thunder shakes the wall.
My totems hum; the waters climb -
The earth still speaks. There is still time.
I wear the claw, the bark, the wing;
Beneath the ash, I guard the spring.
Let moonfire answer axe and blade -
The Dream remembers every glade.
An open palm can shatter steel;
The hand that strikes can also heal.
I raise my cup; let hatred cease -
My fiercest fight is keeping peace.
You curse my craft, but need its flame;
The thing I summon knows my name.
Each pact leaves less of me to save -
It serves my will. I am no slave.
Hold the line! Let the heavens break!
This is our world - not theirs to take!
Thirteen paths, one oath to keep -
We stand so someone else can sleep!
My runeblade served a tyrant's will;
The ones I slaughtered haunt me still.
The dead now rise at my command -
But I decide for whom I stand.
I gave my eyes, but not my sight;
I stole their fire to end their blight.
A demon claws beneath my skin -
I am the cage that keeps it in.
Five dragonflights beneath my scales;
I breathe new strength when courage fails.
They forged a weapon, taught it war -
I choose what I am fighting for.
I do not trust the fire you wield.
But I have seen whom you would shield.
We need not share a god or throne
To swear you will not stand alone.
Hold the line! Let the heavens break!
This is our world - not theirs to take!
Thirteen paths, one oath to keep -
We stand so someone else can sleep!
Azeroth, hear the vow we make:
This is our world - not theirs to take!
Not theirs to take.
Not while we stand.
Not theirs to take.
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