[Verse 1]
You came in bare-knuckled
With frost on your skin
I heard your name snap
Like a lock giving in
The breath under steel
Still warms up the room
You stand in the wreckage
And I follow the boom
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise it higher
Let it bite
Hold that line
Hold on tight
The breath under steel
Cuts through the night
The breath under steel
Feels right
[Chorus]
The breath under steel
The breath under steel
We don’t bend, we don’t kneel
The breath under steel
The breath under steel
The breath under steel
When the world comes to peel
We feel the steel
[Verse 2]
Boots on the gravel
Hands full of scars
You make a hard promise
Out of broken parts
I taste that thunder
When you look my way
Like a match in a furnace
Like a blade in the rain
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise it higher
Let it bite
Hold that line
Hold on tight
The breath under steel
Cuts through the night
The breath under steel
Feels right
[Chorus]
The breath under steel
The breath under steel
We don’t bend, we don’t kneel
The breath under steel
The breath under steel
The breath under steel
When the world comes to peel
We feel the steel
[Bridge]
[Breakdown]
Say it loud
Say it now
Break the chain
Break the plow
The breath under steel
In the fire below
The breath under steel
Let it go
[Final Chorus]
The breath under steel
The breath under steel
We don’t bend, we don’t kneel
The breath under steel
The breath under steel
The breath under steel
When the world comes to peel
We feel the steel