HOLD THE LINE (FOR ALL MANKIND) is an epic Warhammer 40,000–inspired sea shanty anthem for the Imperial Guard. This song isn’t about gods, heroes, or prophecy—it’s about the ordinary men and women with lasguns who stand their ground against impossible odds. From hive worlds to burning battlefields, they fight not for glory, but for each other… and for all mankind. ⚔️ Grimdark • Imperial Guard • Warhammer 40K Fan Song 🎵 Epic sea shanty / war anthem 🔥 Humanity holds the line. My music is DMCA free! Go ahead and use it however you like whether in your own videos or on stream. Credits are appreciated tho! Lyrics: Verse I From hive-stack smoke to trench-line mud, We learned to march where the dead men flood. Stamped and shipped by the tithe-man’s hand, Given a gun and a firing stand. No blessed steel and no shining sign, Just flak and faith in the firing line. Hear the order, feel the sound— Plant your boots and hold the ground. ⸻ Chorus Hold the line, hold it fast, Let them break and let them pass. For the living, not the slain, For the worlds beyond the pain. Not for glory, not for fame, But for every human name. We stand, we fire, we overcome, We hold the line for all mankind. ⸻ Verse II Green skins charge with iron roar, Laughing loud as they hit the wire. Rank by rank we cut them down, Bodies pile but we don’t bow. Lasfire burns the midnight red, Bayonets speak for the nearly dead. Step by step we make them pay, We win the war one yard a day. ⸻ Chorus Hold the line, hold it fast, Let the nightmare test its last. For the habs and factory rows, For the streets where children grow. Not for marble, not for stone, But for flesh and blood and bone. We stand, we fire, we overcome, We hold the line for all mankind. ⸻ Verse III The dead rise up with borrowed breath, Wearing faces stolen from death. They speak our names, they beg, they lie— We answer back with disciplined fire. Warp-born things claw through the gate, Promising truth, promising fate. We burn their words in lasgun light, Human will against endless night. ⸻ Chorus Hold the line, hold it fast, Let the madness break at last. For the minds they’d tear apart, For the still-beating human heart. Not for heaven, not for flame, But to keep us still the same. We stand, we fire, we overcome, We hold the line for all mankind. ⸻ Verse IV Metal giants march in rows, Silent eyes and weapon-glow. We drown their steps in shot and smoke, Every halt a cog we broke. They rise again, we die in files, Buying time in measured miles. They do not flee, they do not bend— But still we make them feel the end. ⸻ Final Chorus Hold the line, hold it fast, For the future we outlast. For the billions yet unborn, For tomorrow bought in blood. We are small but we are many, We are spent but never empty. We stand, we fire, we overcome, We hold the line for all mankind. (Repeat Final Chorus once more, unchanged, for full anthem weight) ⸻ Outro Lasgun hot. Boots still set. Human line— Not broken yet.