[Intro]
Hard hat halo
Dust on my face
Steel-toe swagger
We carve out space (yeah)
[Verse 1]
Up before the sunrise
Coffee in a paper cup
Boots by the back door
Another job to toughen up
Calloused hands, cracked knuckles
Blueprints in my brain
Turn a flat line of dirt
To a kingdom in the rain
We stack days on days
Pour faith into the frame
Every slab, every edge
Got the crew in my veins
[Chorus]
Men of Concrete
We make the ground remember
Every pour, every line
Laid down forever
Hardest workin' in the world
This is our arena
We leave our names in the stone
So the planet'll never forget us (yeah)
[Verse 2]
Rebar tied like laces
Grid tight, that spine
We talk in measurements
Three-eighths at a time
Laughin' in the chaos
Mud on my brand new shirt
But I still feel rich
Every time we tame that dirt
Side by side with my brothers
Through the cold, through the heat
We ain't chasin' a throne
We just build the seat
[Chorus]
Men of Concrete
We make the ground remember
Every pour, every line
Laid down forever
Hardest workin' in the world
This is our arena
We leave our names in the stone
So the planet'll never forget us (hey)
[Bridge]
We don't need crowns
We don't need praise
We got stories in the sidewalks
Echoed in the highways
Every crack, every corner
Got a piece of our fight
We turn dust into monuments
Outta pure grit and pride (yeah)
[Chorus]
Men of Concrete
We make the ground remember
Every pour, every line
Laid down forever
Hardest workin' in the world
This is our arena
We leave our names in the stone
So the planet'll never forget us (Men of Concrete)