[Verse 1]
I woke up in a dirt-block room
One torch burning through the gloom
Got a wooden pick and a cracked-up map
One wrong step and the floor goes black
Outside, creepers walk the fence
Skeletons got no common sense
I dug down low with a shaky hand
Found iron blood in the broken land
[Pre-Chorus]
Block by block, I make my stand
Stone in my fist, fire in my head
Hear that boom at the edge of night
I came to build, I came to fight
[Chorus]
Block by block, we rise
(Block by block)
Mine that gold tonight
(Block by block)
Build it high, don’t stop
(Block by block)
We won’t fall, we don’t drop
[Verse 2]
I carved a path through the mountain spine
Hit a vein of red and I drew that line
Made a door from oak and a roof from rain
Put my name in the world again
Then the deep dark called my name
Blue flames crawling through the cave
I held my breath, I struck that stone
Came back rich and not alone
[Pre-Chorus]
Block by block, I make my stand
Stone in my fist, fire in my head
Hear that boom at the edge of night
I came to build, I came to fight
[Chorus]
Block by block, we rise
(Block by block)
Mine that gold tonight
(Block by block)
Build it high, don’t stop
(Block by block)
We won’t fall, we don’t drop
[Bridge]
Oh-oh, from the ash and clay
Oh-oh, I don’t run away
Diamond heart, iron breath
I’ll keep building past my death
[Final Chorus]
Block by block, we rise
(Block by block)
Mine that gold tonight
(Block by block)
Build it high, don’t stop
(Block by block)
We won’t fall, we don’t drop
Block by block, we rise
(Block by block)
Turn the dark to light
(Block by block)
Hand in hand, all night
(Block by block)
This world’s ours to fight