Rising Above the Iron (version 2)

Verse

Iron holds the roof above my head

Steel bars humming where the smoke is bred

Sweat runs cold on a wire frame

Every breath is a count of time

One hundred hearts locked to one machine

The floor keeps rising till it's almost mine

No room left for anything but this

Pounding skin against the grid

Letting gravity take what was still

Pre-Chorus

The ceiling pulls me up through every cell

Every breath is a count of time

Nothing else exists, just steel and skin

Feel the iron pull where I begin

Hold it tight, don't let it break

Rising above the weight I made

Chorus

Iron holds the floor but we outlast it

Steel gives way beneath our feet at last

Bodies rise above the iron wall

Feet don't stop till every bar falls down

The crown is ours, the crown is found

We're still rising when the lights come up

Verse

Cables crackle where the rafters bend

Sweat runs silver on my spine again

Every kick drum splits a beam in two

I feel it breaking from the inside out too

No name left for this kind of weight

Only the hum, only the grate

Wires cross above me like a bridge

Pulling every hand up past the ridge

One last push before the walls come down

Pre-Chorus

The ceiling pulls me up through every cell

Every breath is a count of time

Nothing else exists, just steel and skin

Feel the iron pull where I begin

Hold it tight, don't let it break

Rising above the weight I made

Chorus

Iron holds the floor but we outlast it

Steel gives way beneath our feet at last

Bodies rise above the iron wall

Feet don't stop till every bar falls down

The crown is ours, the crown is found

We're still rising when the lights come up

Bridge

No name left for this kind of weight

Only the hum, only the grate

Wires cross above me like a bridge

Pulling every hand up past the ridge

I let go of what I was before

The floor opens where it used to be

Every beat becomes an iron door

Breaking open into something more

Outro

The crown is ours, the crown is found

We're still rising when the lights come up