A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth. The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement which consists of shield, supporters, crest and motto. The design is a symbol unique to an individual person, and to his family, corporation, or state. Such displays are commonly called armorial bearings, armorial devices, heraldic devices, or simply armorials or arms.
Historically, armorial bearings were first used by feudal lords and knights in the mid-12th century on battlefields as a way to identify allied from enemy soldiers. As the uses for heraldic designs expanded, other social classes who never would march in battle began to assume arms for themselves. Initially, those closest to the lords and knights adopted arms, such as persons employed as squires that would be in common contact with the armorial devices. Then priests and other ecclesiastical dignities adopted coats of arms, usually to be used as seals and other such insignia, and then towns and cities to likewise seal and authenticate documents. Eventually by the mid-13th century, peasants, commoners and burghers were adopting heraldic devices. The widespread assumption of arms led some states to regulate heraldry within their borders. However, in most of continental Europe, citizens freely adopted armorial bearings.
That dawn, envoy arrives
Morning of October 28th
No day, proven by deed
Descendence of Sparta,
Athens and Crete!
Look north, ready to fight
Enemies charge from the hills
To arms, facing defeat
There's no surrender,
there's no retreat
Time after time,
force their enemies back to the line
Call to Arms banners fly in the wind,
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of Arms reading freedom or death,
Blood of king Leonidas
Air raid, pounding the land
Bombers are flying both day and night
Endure, six days of rain
Dropped by invaders,
bomb raid in vain
Strike hard, the tables have turned,
Drive them back over the hills
At arms, just like before,
Soldiers, civilians, Hellas at war
By their own hand,
force their enemy out of their land
Call to Arms banners fly in the wind,
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of Arms reading freedom or death,
Blood of king Leonidas
Just like their ancestors ages ago
Fought in the place of the greeks
Cause we will remember what the place were called
Freedom or death in the plains
Just like their ancestors ages ago
Fought in the face of defeat
Those three hundred men left a pride to uphold
Freedom or death in effect
Then, now again
Blood of heroes saving their land
Call to Arms banners fly in the wind,
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of Arms reading freedom or death,
The messages you leave on my cell phone remind me why I drank the ocean
The messages I saved are pure fiction
I play them when I need salvation
Hold your face to my face
A coat of arms around my heart
I surrender
I'm from outer space
I surrender
I'm from outer space
The sun has turned to snow this afternoon and you wait for someone or something new
Then your cell phone breaks and you can't make it ring
The messages you left still sing to me
Hold your face to my face
A coat of arms around my heart
I surrender
I'm from outer space
I surrender
Pale the mighty ripple that falls down on me in the evening
I€™ll soon be at the end of a long list of feelings
That I keep holding onto
Looking back
Wondering how on earth will my heart stay intact
If it€™s never going to be easy Pale the weight of a heart
Who gonna help these hands
Cover the place I stand
Compared to all the strength you impart
And cover me in arms
In a coat of arms I€™ll wear
Pale the weight of a heart
Who's gonna keep me standing
Keep me standing strong
Compared to all the strength you impart
Safe outta reach from harm
To face the things gone wrong
Seems to me it€™s life that never moves along like I think it should
Then again it€™s too much thinking that€™s never done me good
So I keep building onto
This house of mine
That I carry with me
Almost, almost all the time And if it€™s never going to be easy
(Chorus)
Strength is all I need
(Chorus)
[Words: John Robert, Music: Tor Magne and Lengsel]
Horrific death, you are closing in on me
Circling silently towards the centre of the earth
The rails lead the way, night and day
Black tracks ahead
I keep my eyes on you
Keep you in sight from a distance
And join in the carousel movements
Afraid, awed
Beholding the ghost-like smoke
I grow tired as the weary wheels go round
Feel sick as the smelly smog surrounds me
I droop like snowdrops and wither
Wait for your horrid hands to extend
A glade became the setting
Must have been about noon
Grass so green and tender
Ripped apart by steel clad boots
Mid-day's sun reflected
In weapons sharp as steel
Grim determination
One shall die and one shall live
And the dawn became the winner
Sun and moon will rise again
Coat of arms shine and shimmer
A king has been crowned
Now the wounds are open
Blood engulfing all
Ready for the gauntlet
One will stand and one will fall
And the dawn became the winner
Sun and moon will rise again
Coat of arms shine and shimmer
A king has been crowned
And the dawn became the winner
Sun and moon will rise again
Coat of arms shine and shimmer
A king has been crowned
Pale the mighty ripple that falls down on me in the evening
I?ll soon be at the end of a long list of feelings
That I keep holding onto
Looking back
Wondering how on earth will my heart stay intact
If it?s never going to be easy Pale the weight of a heart
Who gonna help these hands
Cover the place I stand
Compared to all the strength you impart
And cover me in arms
In a coat of arms I?ll wear
Pale the weight of a heart
Who's gonna keep me standing
Keep me standing strong
Compared to all the strength you impart
Safe outta reach from harm
To face the things gone wrong
Seems to me it?s life that never moves along like I think it should
Then again it?s too much thinking that?s never done me good
So I keep building onto
This house of mine
That I carry with me
Almost, almost all the time And if it?s never going to be easy
(Chorus)
Strength is all I need