Iron Will, Hold Your Ground (version 2)

Verse

Black iron ribs above the floor

Rust on the valves where the echoes roar

Crown of dust hangs from a pipe gone loose

Every heartbeat is someone's blood and proof

Pre-Chorus

I feel it rise through the steel beneath my skin

Something ancient waking, something old, something kin

The rafters shake like they've seen this before

Something in me answers what I never knew was mine

Chorus

Iron will, hold your ground

Crown of dust still spinning round

Iron will, don't let go

This is how the ancient ghosts know

Verse

Bones in the beam work like a thousand hands

Holding up the weight that no one understands

Water rises where the concrete cracks

Every river starts with something cracked

Pre-Chorus

I feel it rise through the steel beneath my skin

Something ancient waking, something old, something kin

The rafters shake like they've seen this before

Something in me answers what I never knew was mine

Chorus

Iron will, hold your ground

Crown of dust still spinning round

Iron will, don't let go

This is how the ancient ghosts know

Bridge

Not steel, not stone, it's what lives inside

Older than the walls that keep me tied

Break the beam and the whole floor falls through

I choose to hold instead of choosing you

Chorus

Iron will, hold your ground

Crown of dust still spinning round

Iron will, don't let go

This is how the ancient ghosts know