Iced Earth - Hold At All Costs (July 2, 1863) Lyrics

"on my command, fix bayonets!!" always gives me goose bumps

Love this song
Everything about it

He said he wears the gray, so why is the rest of the song from the union perspective? Awesome song!

Great premise for a movie!

This is soo damn good, God Bless America🍻🇺🇸🤘🏻

THIS IS WAR MUSIC. NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!!!!!

Omg look this Riffs , amazing

I got this cd for Xmas. Brand new. Used to be 12.99 American dollars. Now it’s 120.00 for it. Worth it

I love this song!!!!! no matter what it is, it is the anthem for giving the last full measure of devotion for what you believe in. EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!

0:52 is an absolutely perfect riff. That bass sounds so fucking good that it’s almost too overwhelming to listen to....

Hell yea

My gof this song.. I can't get enough of this song. I can listen to this song million times.Epiccc

I have been listening to their songs at 1.25 speed and it sounds pretty badass as well.

But album isn't best Iced earth quite.

My favorite song from this album!

Fuck man....0:52 is the sexiest riff ever

The BEST ICED EARTH SONG OF ALL!

4:09 the best part

This song makes my eyes all watery. God bless this nation and god help us in the coming years to hold it together.

Honestly, I would have liked it more if the whole thing was acoustic

I remember when this 1st came out. Barlow gone ripper here epic !!!

Why did they remove it from spotify?

It’s on amazon music

I know this comment is a year old, but it's back on Spotify.

Ripper rocked this album!

Donnie Wolter as a Barlow fan. I agree

I love this song!

I'm crying.

I've loved this album, particularly the gettysburg CD part of it, for over ten years now.
It's inspired me to read about the civil war, it's major battles, figures such as general Lee etc.
Very sad that some people want to forget history and bury it instead of trying to learn from it.

These songs are racist. We need to tear them down.

The trend with censoring and tearing down statues in order to edit history is sad and misguided. And yeah, it has to stop before it spreads into other mediums of art and knowledge as well.

Mauku this album wasnt funded by taxpayers and the "historic statues" you defend were erected durring Jim Crowe and the civil rights movement to say "fuck you" to black people. You can teach history without memorializing people in stone with tax dollars from citizens whos family were subjected to their cruliety.

Greg Hurst Yeah, like that evil Revolutionary War general! And other people who had significant cultural and historical importance to the area their statue is in.

Greg Hurst
Sure but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to tear them down and rename everything. If you have a statue of a racist then ask this: first was this person from a time where racism was the norm of their time/did they live in a time where morality hadn’t developed enough to see the obvious immortality of racism, slavery etc? If yes then look past that to see what good they did. Statues of Sam Houston for example are everywhere in Texas because he was like our George Washington. We aren’t praising the fact he held slaves, but rather the fact that he led Texas to Victory and also lead us during our period as an independent republic.

But even if the statue is about someone bad and the statue was put up to celebrate what was bad about them, then it’s still a reminder. Some may not know they existed and may look up facts and information about who they were and what they did. Statues and names are not simply a way of praising someone, they’re a way of making sure they aren’t forgotten. They don’t necessarily keep that legacy clean they just keep remembered.

Eric Bugenhagen brought me here

Same here!

The 415?

Yeah the 415 decline pr

If your here because of eric you awsome.

Raoul Tolud Ayyyy brother

this is incredible

Most underrated group and vocal so far

fucking epic

New fans of Iced Earth. Research these guys. They are truly metal.

one my favorete songs that tim owens sung

_"To the last man!"_
-Maine Militia Mantra

Mine not, he is better in Judas priest's jugulator, it's his best job! But this song is best in this album, this is part of this trilogy. I have this album, that digipack. This is great!

Ct is a shit of liberals

_"To the last man!"_
-Maine Militia Mantra

Sensacional esse som

The valor of the Texans.

Jeremy Creason
Texans are the best fighters America has and has had. The Lone Star forever!

and Alabama's best men

ive been to Gettysburg the High Water mark and Devils den all over that land close your eyes and play this song its so powerful.

i"m in love

The first 54 or so seconds of this song is one of my favorite pieces of music ever...just absolute pure beauty musically and lyrically

MOST DEFINITELY PLAY IT HARD PLAY IT PROUD!

LYRICS:

Just a mile or so away
Lives my dearest friend in this world.
He wears the Blue and I the Grey
And god it hurts me so
The last time we were together
I grabbed his hand and I pledged
If I ever draw my sword on you
May the good lord strike me dead.

The union flank's in trouble
To the round top on the double
A bad decision, insubordination
Exposed our line in a dangerous way

The burden lies upon us
Surrender is not an option
We are the flank and if we break
The union crumbles, We could lose the war!

Down below's the carnage
The rebel's charging onward
Push the slaughter forward the Peach Orchard.
Through the Wheat Field and Devil's Den

The valour of the Texans
And Alabama's best men
They're unrelenting and devastating
The last full measure of devotion's clear.

[Chorus:]
We know what we're made of.
When up against all odds we hold our line
For the cause that we so love
We must hold at all cost
We know what we're made of
when our nation needs us we'll stay the course
for the union we so love
We must hold at all costs!

Wave after wave they're coming
Their power must be waning!
We're out of ammo, we can't fall back, no!
One desperate measure, a means to end

On their next wave we charge them
There is no other option
Disconcert them, force submission
On my command, fix bayonets!

[Chorus:]
We know what we're made of.
When up against all odds we hold our line
For the cause that we so love
We must hold at all cost
We know what we're made of
when our nation needs us we'll stay the course
for the union we so love
We must hold at all costs!

[Chorus:]
We know what we're made of.
When up against all odds we hold our line
For the cause that we so love
We must hold at all cost
We know what we're made of
when our nation needs us we'll stay the course
for the union we so love
We must hold at all costs!

I don't need the lyrics, I know them off by heart

Wonderfull and epic song...

The only band that doesn't need words. They would be epic to do an album with no lyrics called Speecheless man.

this can't be real. it's too epic. surely i'm just hallucinating this music.

I went to this tour it was fucking epic. Schaffer came out dressed in a confederate uniform.

This is the very first song I heard from this band and got instantly hooked! Suggest me the best albums and other epic songs!!!

N0rth3rnP1k3
Alive in Athens , 3 cd .

*hits blunt*
Yo this some good music. Metal about the civil war

fucking best song of the album !!

Great song, the album as a whole is sadly underrated.

@VideoGameMetal01 horribly underrated its fuckd up

Underrated? It's by far my favorite Iced Earth album lol

VideoGameMetal01 one of my favorite albums

Holy fuckin Schaffer

"He wears the Blue and I the Gray..." The Blue is Winfield Scott Hancock and the Gray is Lewis Armistead. Lewis was mortally wounded at Gettysburg. When he went down from his wounds he gave the Freemason sign for help and two Unionist Masons ran up and pulled him off the field. Armistead died before Hancock could get to his friend's side.

Now I understand why Battleground Cigar company uses Armistead as a masonic mascot. History is fun!

what the...

Lol at conspiracy people

Scarab Assassin free mason was a guild with esoteric knowledge. Albert pike was a confederate soldier and was a key member in founding the free Masonry in the United States at the time but it’s hard to say if they believed in luciferian teaching hard to say. But research it

Scarab Assassin but in the modern world free masonry has taken a dark side with satanic symbolism and satanic teaching but it’s such a dee rabbit hole. I love the south but sometimes get thought that this was orchestrated to destroy the south sovereignty

Completely masterful first minute, but man. After that is a huge let down.

Hugh mungos

Based Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 

"The Glorious Burden", this old man put's this album in his top 20 and I have a lot of stiff competition in there; Lizzy, Skynyrd, etc...I.E. hasn't done anything any better since this offering. 

History + metal = pretty friggin cool!

My guess is that you've never heard of Sabaton then.

Fuck man I fucking love this song \m/

this song takes my breath away.... poetry and melancholy in a powerfull way.. <3 IE

this deserves many more views.

Fuck YES!