The Iron Crown 14

Verse

Black box, iron crown on my chest

Kick drum locked to the engine's breath

Cold wire hum where the veins used to be

Bassline pulling down through me

Grey dust falling in a single line

Machine keeps count of what I left behind

Pre-Chorus

Feet gone heavy, walls closing in

Static rising past my skin

No face here, no name, no weight

Just the iron pulse beneath the slate

Chorus

I am the crown, I am the steel

Body erased where the bassline seals

Iron wears me down to nothing thin

Crown forgets the man who wore it in

Verse

Mirror's cracked to a hundred tiny beams

Every face in here is mine and not mine

Sweat runs cold along the collarbone

Hands move on their own, alone and gone

Rust and light and the low end grow

Something wears the body down below

Pre-Chorus

Feet gone heavy, walls closing in

Static rising past my skin

No face here, no name, no weight

Just the iron pulse beneath the slate

Chorus

I am the crown, I am the steel

Body erased where the bassline seals

Iron wears me down to nothing thin

Crown forgets the man who wore it in

Bridge

No hand lifts now that was my own

The current runs where the heartbeat's gone

Gone beneath the iron, gone beneath the sound

Nothing left of me on solid ground

Outro

Iron crown still humming slow

Machine keeps count and lets me go