Raise Your Banner is the second single from Within Temptation's seventh studio album Resist, and features guest vocals from Anders Fridén of In Flames. A radio edit of the song it was released worldwide via digital download and streaming on 16 November 2018. A promotional lyric video accompanied the release. Later, on November 22 it was released the extended (album) version. The official music video for the song was released on November 30.
Lyrics[]
Album version[]
Blood for freedom
You're pushing me into the corner
Don't fight with me, don't fight with me, don't fight with me
I'm crowning no man for his armour or rhapsody
For what I see and what I feel
Wake up
I'm defying you, seeing right through you
Once I believed in you
Wake up
Feel what's coming
Deep within we all know
Blood for freedom
So raise your banner, fight your war
Break the silence, no remorse
Won't die within [blood for freedom]
Raise your banner, won't you come?
Fight the venom, the good die young
Won't die within
I'm feeling the eyes of the fallen, they're watching me
They make me see, they make me see
I'm feeling the pain how you break them and make them bleed
You make them bleed, you make them bleed
Wake up
I'm defying you, seeing right through you
Once I believed in you
Wake up
Feel what's coming
Deep within we all know
The way that you torment me
The way that you challenge me
The way that you make me bleed
Blood for freedom
So raise your banner, fight your war
Break the silence, no remorse
Won't die within [blood for freedom]
Raise your banner, won't you come?
Fight the venom, the good die young
Won't die within
Blood for freedom
So raise your banner, fight your war
Break the silence, no remorse
Won't die within [blood for freedom]
Raise your banner, won't you come?
Fight the venom, the good die young
Won't die within
When gods are failing
They put all heaven in a rage
We're on our own
Our tears keep falling
They're setting fire to the flame
Blood for freedom
Single edit[]
Blood for freedom
You're pushing me into the corner
Don't fight with me, don't fight with me, don't fight with me
I'm crowning no man for his armour or rhapsody
For what I see and what I feel
Wake up
I'm defying you, seeing right through you
Once I believed in you
Wake up
Feel what's coming
Deep within we all know
Blood for freedom
So raise your banner, fight your war
Break the silence, no remorse
Won't die within [blood for freedom]
Raise your banner, won't you come?
Fight the venom, the good die young
Won't die within
I'm feeling the eyes of the fallen, they're watching me
They make me see, they make me see
I'm feeling the pain how you break them and make them bleed
You make them bleed, you make them bleed
Wake up
I'm defying you, seeing right through you
Once I believed in you
Wake up
Feel what's coming
Deep within we all know
The way that you torment me
The way that you challenge me
The way that you make me bleed
Blood for freedom
So raise your banner, fight your war
Break the silence, no remorse
Won't die within [blood for freedom]
Raise your banner, won't you come?
Fight the venom, the good die young
Won't die within
When gods are failing
They put all heaven in a rage
We're on our own
Our tears keep falling
They're setting fire to the flame
Blood for freedom
Music video[]
