Carry the Names | Marcus Fenix Song (Gears of War)

Marcus Fenix carries more than a rifle in this Gears of War tribute song. Carry the Names follows the scar left by war, prison, Delta, Dom, Anya, JD, and every fallen Gear whose name still weighs on him. This original cinematic tribute song is for the survivor who stayed when the world tried to bury him. Lyrics I dug myself out with names in my teeth I wear the traitor scar where medals used to sleep I am not stone, I am not saved I'm Marcus Fenix, and I carry the names The Pendulum Wars left mud in my blood Young men came home with ghosts in the dust Then E-Day split the ground like a grave And the world learned fear had another face Delta was never a banner to me It was breath in the smoke, boots in debris Every order came heavy, every victory came late And the COG kept grinding men into fate I have buried my rage where the armor bends But it rises at night with the voices of friends They call me a hero like heroes don't break But I know what it costs to stay awake I carry the names, I carry the names Carved into silence, hammered by flames I am not unbreakable, I am the one who stayed When the war tried to bury me I carried the names They locked me away with a traitor's mark For running toward Adam through orders and dark A son can be guilty, a soldier can bleed When duty and love want different things Dom held the line when my hands went cold More brother than blood, more scar than gold I will not make this another song of his grave But every step forward still walks past his name I have hated the crown on the COG wall Hated the way it demands we crawl Still when the ground opens, I answer the same Not for the flag, but the faces and names I carry the names, I carry the names Carved into silence, hammered by flames I am not unbreakable, I am the one who stayed When the war tried to bury me I carried the names Anya was tomorrow I barely could hold Soft hands in a world made of iron and cold Then JD looked back with my anger in his eyes And I heard my own thunder In the words we denied I was never good at forgiving the chain Never good at saying the ache by its name But son, if I fall before daylight remains Take more than my rifle, take all of their names Let the buried know I remember Let the broken know I remain Every grave is a burning ember Every breath is a borrowed flame I am not the wall I am not the war I am just the man Who stands a little more I carry the names, I carry the names Through ash and thunder, through blood and blame I am not unbreakable, I am the one who stayed When the war tried to bury me I carried the names I carry the names, I carry the names Not for the glory, not for the chains I am still standing because someone has to stay When the world forgets the fallen, I carry the names So write this in steel where the silence begins Not every survivor believes that he wins I am not stone, I am not saved I'm Marcus Fenix, and I carry the names #GearsOfWar #MarcusFenix #TalesInMelody