LYRICS:
June fire over the Pacific blue
A storm was rising and the world knew
Steel wings circled where the ocean burned
At Midway’s edge, the tide would turn

Codebreakers whispered through the dark
Found the target, found the spark
Nimitz waited with a hunter’s stare
Carriers hidden in the morning air

Enterprise rode with iron pride
Hornet cut through the violent tide
Yorktown wounded but still alive
Back from the grave to fight and survive

Engines screaming
Sunlight bleeding
Death was climbing through the sky

No retreating
Hearts still beating
Wings of thunder rising high

Midway
Fire on the water
Midway
Steel against the sun
Midway
The hunters became the hunted
Midway
The turning had begun

Torpedo squadrons flew into flame
Low and slow through a wall of pain
No glory promised, no safe return
Only black smoke and fuel to burn

They drew the fighters down below
Through blood and sacrifice, they opened the road
Then Dauntless wings came screaming down
Like hammerfalls from heaven’s crown

Dive through thunder
Rip them under
Falling straight through smoke and light

Bombs descending
Fate unbending
Carriers dying in the fight

Midway
Fire on the water
Midway
Steel against the sun
Midway
The hunters became the hunted
Midway
The turning had begun

Akagi burned beneath the sky
Kaga roared and Soryu died
Hiryu struck with a final breath
But Yorktown answered even in death

Spruance held the razor line
Fletcher fought through smoke and brine
Four great carriers lost to flame
The Pacific would never be the same

Hold the line
Hold the wave
From the deep
Rise the brave

Hold the line
Hold the wave
Midway’s fire
Marked the grave

Midway
Fire on the water
Midway
Steel against the sun
Midway
The hunters became the hunted
Midway
The turning had begun

Midway
Thunder over ocean
Midway
Blood beneath the blue
Midway
Against the teeth of empire
Midway
The storm came breaking through

June fire faded into night
But the sea remembered every fight
Where courage burned and legends stay
The tide was turned at Midway

^{replied to 1:12 on 3speak.tv}