Carve Through the Copper Vein (version 2)

Verse

Chainmail jacket, copper wire rusted on my chest

Concrete walls breathing like a living chest

Ten years pushing through the dark, hands to the wall

Every dollar that I ever stole was never enough at all

I carved my name into the ceiling tile by hand

Built this empire with my own two fists and nails

But something in the iron is calling me home now

Something ancient under every single row of gold

Bones don't care about the money, bones just know the weight

This city was always eating everything I made

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear it moving through the pipes tonight?

Every tunnel humming with a thousand lives

I built this fortress out of fear and fire

Now it's telling me it wants what I desire

Chorus

I'm carved through the copper vein, cut loose from my own name

The city was never mine at all, it was just a flame that burned to claim me in

I am the metal turning back against its maker

Carve through the copper vein before it kills me later

Verse

Fire escape ladders twisting like a serpent's spine

Every window cracked wide open letting morning in

Concrete cracks are healing slower than my skin can heal

This was never mine to hold, this was just a spell

I buried twenty men alive beneath the floorboards

Told them it was progress, told them it was power

They're still down there whispering through the copper wire

Saying I don't need their love to stay entire

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear it moving through the pipes tonight?

Every tunnel humming with a thousand lives

I built this fortress out of fear and fire

Now it's telling me it wants what I desire

Chorus

I'm carved through the copper vein, cut loose from my own name

The city was never mine at all, it was just a flame that burned to claim me in

I am the metal turning back against its maker

Carve through the copper vein before it kills me later

Bridge

I walked this city block with a hundred cameras on me

Every traffic light was timing my heart like a machine

But under every single wire there's a living heartbeat too

And I have to ask myself which one is mine, and which one is you

The steel forgets the hand that forged it, eventually

Turns around and bites before it even falls

I chose this tower when the darkness started growing thick

Now it's teaching me how to let go of everything

Chorus

I'm carved through the copper vein, cut loose from my own name

The city was never mine at all, it was just a flame that burned to claim me in

I am the metal turning back against its maker

Carve through the copper vein before it kills me later