[Intro]
Salt in the soil
Blood in the dust
Cracks in the crown
Iron turns to rust
[Verse 1]
Cities choke on cinder
Skies bruise
Black and red
I walk through fallen empires
Counting the nameless dead
Statues split their faces
Marble mouths collapse
I carve my mark in granite
With bone
With blade
With ash
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that distant dragging
Of a billion broken shields
Every border breathing
Its last
As it yields
[Chorus]
I am the famine and the flood
The hand that grinds your flags to mud
Every wall you raised
Burns for one
Burns for one
I am the crown of crawling smoke
The throat that turns your prayers to choke
Every wasted sun
Falls for one
Falls for one
[Verse 2]
Kingdoms
Glass and paper
They shred beneath my tread
Maps bleed at the edges
Lines blur
Drown in red
Tongues that swore allegiance
Rot silent in their fear
I drink their crushed dominions
Till nothing living's near (yeah)
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear foundations shiver
Temples split and sway
Every oath you hammered
Crumbles into clay
[Chorus]
I am the famine and the flood
The hand that grinds your flags to mud
Every wall you raised
Burns for one
Burns for one
I am the crown of crawling smoke
The throat that turns your prayers to choke
Every wasted sun
Falls for one
Falls for one
[Bridge]
Crawl
On
Your
Ruins (ugh)
Whose name
Remains
When every land
Is mine?
[Chorus]
I am the famine and the flood
The hand that grinds your flags to mud
Every wall you raised
Burns for one
Burns for one
I am the crown of crawling smoke
The throat that turns your prayers to choke
Every wasted sun
Falls for one
Falls for one
[Outro]
Salt in the soil
Blood in the dust
Worlds in my footprints
Ground into rust (roar)