Iron Hands in Glass (version 2)

Verse

Steel in the marrow of my spine

Gold veins running through the concrete mind

Every hand that ever built a wall

Now carries fire across them all

The city learned to call me 'warrior' loud

Not for battle but for carrying crowds

Ribs wide open, chest against the sound

I become the weight the ground can't drown

I was forged in iron, tempered in the dark

This is how I learn to give my heart

No shield, no sword – just skin and breath

The floor remembers every heartbeat

I'm a vessel that this city swells into

It climbs up through my collarbone

Rising out of me like thunder down the road

Nothing broken but the rules it's known

This is how we learn to carry weight

We don't break – we rise with the sound

I trade my silence for a louder name

Every hand that built this wall now breaks it open wide

Pre-Chorus

Feel it climbing, feel it climb

Through every rib I made up mine

The noise was small before we came

Now it swallows stars and storms the sky

Chorus

I am iron hands in glass

Carrying cities instead of swords at last

Every heartbeat that this ground has known

Is now a fire I have become

Hold the weight – do not break

We rise, we hold – we shake the sound

Nothing broken but the rules it's known

Verse 2

I stood where concrete walls were built

They said my name was just a name they'd kept

Now the whole floor answers when I speak

The rhythm learns to read my every vein

It climbs up through my collarbone

Spilling out of me like thunder on the road

Every hand that built this wall now breaks it open wide

Nothing broken but the rules it's known

This is how we learn to carry weight

We don't break – we rise with sound

I trade silence for a louder name

Pre-Chorus

Feel it climbing, feel it climb

Through every rib I made up mine

The noise was small before we came

Now it swallows stars and storms the sky

Chorus

I am iron hands in glass

Carrying cities instead of swords at last

Every heartbeat that this ground has known

Is now a fire I have become

Hold the weight – do not break

We rise, we hold – we shake the sound

Nothing broken but the rules it's known

Bridge

If the walls were loud, I learned to shout

Now the room remembers what my ribs are made of now

The name they gave me once was just a spark

I've become the fire that every shadow starts

Every heartbeat – every hand that claps – is mine

The city called me warrior, never knew the truth —

I'm the floor it climbs onto, I am the sound it chooses you in

Chorus

I am iron hands in glass

Carrying cities instead of swords at last

Every heartbeat that this ground has known

Is now a fire I have become

Hold the weight – do not break

We rise, we hold – we shake the sound

Nothing broken but the rules it's known