[Verse]
Ash rain childhood
Fists up against the storm
Short: You beside
Long: Broken home
Rusted dreams
We turned the hurt to a uniform
Short: Same stride
Long: Knuckles split
Junkyard nights
Laughing at the void we swore
Short: Never hide
[Verse 2]
Long: You took hits meant for me
Grinned blood
Said “swing again”
Short: Steel grin
Long: Shoulder to shoulder
Two wolves chewing through the pen
Short: Same sin
Long: Every scar on my skin spells out your name in flame and phlegm
Short: Worn thin
[Prechorus]
Long: When the skyline cracks and the world goes black
Who stands in the smoke with me
Short: Not them
Long: Only you
Only you
Brother blade
Brother shield
Brother heresy
Short: My helm
[Chorus]
Long: Brother in the blast furnace
You’re the fire in my frozen veins
Short: My core
Long: Brother in the blast furnace
I’m a ghost without your war and chains
Short: No roar
Long: Brother in the blast furnace
If you fall I burn the earth in your name
Short: One more
Long: Brother in the blast furnace
Brother
Brother
Echo in the flame
Short: Forevermore
[Verse 3]
Long: You saw me drowning in the bile
Dragged me up by broken hair
Short: No prayer
Long: Said “bleed louder
Little beast
Make the cosmos hear you tear”
Short: Dead stare
Long: You were map
You were match
You were rage in the midnight air
Short: You there
[Bridge]
Long: What am I without your boots stomping time in the pit of my chest
Short: Just rust
Long: What am I without your laugh carving cracks in the face of the abyss