What we learned in The Rising

[FJerome]

For the sake of future reference here's the entire song for this year;

'Neath azure skies a soul burned bright, stars soon gathered 'fore its might ♪
By their radiance truths lay bare, a nation freed from deep despair ♪

As the heavens take a crimson hue, friends now gather, old and new ♪
By their deeds doth freedom ring, once more their hearts have cause to sing ♪

It's much more retrospective in tone than it's been in past years and probably scans better in Japanese, since there the expansions were called "Blue Skies of Isghard" and "Crimson Liberators". If it hints at anything at all, I'm going to take a guess it means we're going to spend the next year or so continuing our efforts to reform Isghard alongside rebuilding Doma and Ala Mhigo.

Also that emphasis on sky colours makes it seem like we're going from midday to sunset and what comes next is going to be nightfall, which sounds pleasingly ominous.

[Jonnycbad]

Why the bugs in the weird cheap maze?

These are metaphors for "glitches/bugs".