[Intro]
Static sky
Blackened glass
Rust on rust
We count what’s left
[Verse 1]
Cables in the dirt like veins
We splice them together
Shaking hands
Blueprints burned into our backs
We remember what collapsed
Ash in our lungs
Iron taste
We trade old gods for interface
Sun is a rumor behind the smoke
We learn new prayers in ones and zeroes
[Chorus]
We build from rot
From rust
From ruin
Teach dead stone to beat like human
If this is all we get
We make it live
Ashes make the grid
We carve our names in steel and skin
Program guilt
Delete our sins
If this is how it ends
We still resist
Ashes make the grid
[Verse 2]
Children playing in a crater
Counting teeth like silver coins
Elders arguing on a scaffold
What to keep
What to destroy
Do we write the old laws cleaner
Or weld our hunger into chains
Every hammer swing a question
What kind of ghost will bear our name?
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[whispered vocals] Flesh remembers fire
Circuits learn our fear
If we teach them how to conquer
Will they keep us here? [growled]
Crowds chant numbers
Faces masked
Pulse of turbines
Beating fast
Are we saving what once killed us
Or just dressing up the past?
[crescendo]
[Chorus]