Steel Crown of Rust (version 2)

Verse

Iron dust falls like snow in the beam

Hands up catch what the light machine

Floor is warm where a thousand feet pressed flat

Crown of rust above my head's gone flat

Concrete hums beneath the floor

Every heartbeat syncs with one more

Spikes on the wall catch the strobe and hold

Nothing moves that the iron doesn't mold

Pre-Chorus

Rust goes soft where the current bends

Skin forgets itself again

Hands still lift, the crown stays hot

Nothing underneath but what we got

Chorus

Steel crown of rust, it holds us tight

Steel crown of rust, under the light

Spines line up along the steel beam

Steel crown of rust is my own name

Verse

Vents exhale through a thousand throats

Copper taste in an open mouth that's lost its notes

Black glass ceiling leaks a single ray

Every shoulder moves because I sway

Crown goes warm where the current bends

Rust runs soft beneath the crown again

Hands still lift, the steel holds hot

Nothing underneath but what we got

Pre-Chorus

Rust goes soft where the current bends

Skin forgets itself again

Hands still lift, the crown stays hot

Nothing underneath but what we got

Chorus

Steel crown of rust, it holds us tight

Steel crown of rust, under the light

Spines line up along the steel beam

Steel crown of rust is my own name

Bridge

No face beneath the crown

Just wire and rust

Let the current hold the crown

Not my name, not now

Chorus

Steel crown of rust, it holds us tight

Steel crown of rust, under the light

Spines line up along the steel beam

Steel crown of rust is my own name