Iron Crown 14

Verse

Steel door shuts behind me now

Every name that walks the floor

I was weight and I was shadow

Now the iron wears a crown.

Bones remember every hammer

Nerve remembers every sound.

Crown of spikes upon my shoulders

Weight of all this empty ground.

Feet don't move, they just remain

Heavy like the heavy rain.

I am not the man who entered

I am something after the door.

Every heartbeat I have borrowed

Counts against a debt I owe to more.

The tide is moving, pulling everything

Underneath the floor and through it too.

No face left that answers questions

Only iron knows what I do.

Nothing in me is living anymore

Just a weight the metal has grown.

I am not myself at all now

Only heavy and never going home.

Chorus

Iron crown, iron crown

Weight beneath my feet

Hold still through the low end

This is how we meet.

Iron crown, iron crown

Cold where my heart used to be

Nothing breaks me, nothing moves me

I am weight, I am weight of me.

Verse

Hands that clasp become a single grip

One long fist across the floor.

No clock left to measure seconds falling

Just the pull and nothing more.

Chest fills slow with borrowed weight

Each heart beating like a drum.

Sweat runs down as static currents

Riding every wire run.

The machine remembers my heartbeat

Every drop that I've become.

Nothing of myself remains intact

Only iron under skin, under bone.

I forget the name that held this frame

Forget what it felt to be alive.

Now the heavy moves without a reason

Just the pull and nothing left to give.

No sky left, no sun to follow

Just the weight and how it holds.

Nothing breaks me, nothing moves me

I am weight, I am weight of me.

Chorus

Iron crown, iron crown

Weight beneath my feet

Hold still through the low end

This is how we meet.

Iron crown, iron crown

Cold where my heart used to be

Nothing breaks me, nothing moves me

I am weight, I am weight of me.

Bridge

Let go all that you were carrying

Every breath was borrowed time.

The machine remembers the heartbeat

I do not remember mine.

I forget the name behind this frame

Forget what light and dark were.

Nothing breaks me, nothing moves me

Only iron through every pore.

Chorus

Iron crown, iron crown

Weight beneath my feet

Hold still through the low end

This is how we meet.

Iron crown, iron crown

Cold where my heart used to be

Nothing breaks me, nothing moves me

I am weight, I am weight of me.