[Verse 1]
Black smoke
Turns noon into bruise-blue night
Steel rain
Punches holes through the daylight
Bootprints
Stamped in marrow and mud
Every flag
Soaks the same dark flood
[Chorus]
War is a mouth of teeth and iron
Chewing through the bones of time
We feed the fire
We climb the pyre
Scars in the shape of a lie
Ashes of the iron sky
Ashes of the iron sky
[Verse 2]
Cold eyes
Behind glass and crosshair glare
Cheap gods
Sold in uniforms we wear
Names fade
Burned away on shattered stone
Every king
Sits on a borrowed throne
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Children counting bodies
Like they’re stars above the field
“Tell me who the hero is”
The silence starts to yield
Rusted prayers in empty hands
Claw at heaven
Claw at sand
If this is what your glory buys
Take it back
Let it die
[Chorus]