Iron in your smile

Saw your hands shake

As you laced up your boots today

You said

"I'm fine"

But your eyes gave the war away

You’ve been counting scars

Like they’re tally marks on a prison wall

But I know that heart

It was built to break the fall

You’re iron in my blood

You’re fire through the flood

Every time the world swings first

You rise back up in the dust and dirt

You’re louder than the pain

A storm they cannot tame

They’ll try to break your soul apart

But they can’t bend that metal heart (oh yeah)

I remember you

Small fists up at the thunder sky

Dared the clouds

"Go on

Hit me one more time"

Now the hits land harder

Bills

Goodbyes

And twisted truth

But you grit your teeth

There’s a lion in that wounded youth

You’re iron in my blood

You’re fire through the flood

Every time the world swings first

You rise back up in the dust and dirt

You’re louder than the pain

A storm they cannot tame

They’ll try to break your soul apart

But they can’t bend that metal heart

When your mirror screams

"There’s nothing left"

Call my name

I’ll scream it back

You are not your darkest thought

You are every fight you’ve fought

Every time you think you’re done

Look how far you’ve already come (hey!)

You’re iron in my blood

You’re fire through the flood

Every time the world swings first

You rise back up in the dust and dirt

You’re louder than the pain

A storm they cannot tame

They’ll stack their walls a mile high

You’ll climb

You’ll burn

You’ll cut the sky

They’ll try to break your soul apart

But they can’t bend that metal heart