Steel Bones Rising (Version 2)

Verse

Warehouse door swung open, city fog rolls in

Chain-link shadow dragging on the floor again

Steel plates rattling where the current goes through

Six a.m. heartbeat hitting off your crew

I was carrying groceries down an empty hall

Now I'm running point as steel starts to fall

Concrete cracked wide like the gates of old Jerusalem

This is the reckoning that the city can't conceal

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it rising up through the concrete core?

Every scar on your knuckles wants more

The wind off the water keeps pushing at our backs

We don't back down when the fire starts to crack

Chorus

Steel bones rising, steel bones rising

Cold iron heartbeat, we're alive tonight

Hands up against the current, this is my fight

Steel bones rising, steel bones rising above the light

Verse

Puddles reflect a hundred faces half awake

Steam off the manhole covers as the engines start to shake

You taught me how to read a circuit by the glow of your hands

Now I'm wiring the room with copper that understands

Every pipe on this block is a vein that we open wide

Nothing in this city moves without us walking through it tonight

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it rising up through the concrete core?

Every scar on your knuckles wants more

The wind off the water keeps pushing at our backs

We don't back down when the fire starts to crack

Chorus

Steel bones rising, steel bones rising

Cold iron heartbeat, we're alive tonight

Hands up against the current, this is my fight

Steel bones rising, steel bones rising above the light

Bridge

I was running from something, now I'm running it all in

Every window on every block starts to fall like a curtain drawn thin

The dark got a name here and it's called our names tonight

I trade the shadows back for daylight, and it feels right

Chorus

Steel bones rising, steel bones rising

Cold iron heartbeat, we're alive tonight

Hands up against the current, this is my fight

Steel bones rising, steel bones rising above the light