Iron Crown on the Wire (version 2)

Verse

Iron door swings shut behind my back

Black smoke crawling up along the rack

No face left of anyone I knew

Just a pulse and nothing else to do

The air is heavy, it won't clear

Walls hum static every hour here

A hand brushes mine on the rail

I don't ask names, I just feel the pull

Pre-Chorus

Every wall comes up when I move closer

The floor keeps shaking like a war machine now

The lights cut white then cut black through us

One heartbeat where two shadows knew you

Chorus

Iron crown on the wire

Hold the pulse, hold the fire

Move until the lights go out

Iron crown, we don't lose count

Verse

Cold wind blowing from a gap in the steel

Your shoulder catches mine like a shield

No names exchanged and no goodbye

Just the beat and your eyes, close but shy

A door creaks open down at the end of the hall

I don't follow — I just stand tall

The room keeps shifting, walls bend and blur

You're still there in the smoke and you pull me through it like a storm

Pre-Chorus

Every wall comes up when I move closer

The floor keeps shaking like a war machine now

The lights cut white then cut black through us

One heartbeat where two shadows knew you

Chorus

Iron crown on the wire

Hold the pulse, hold the fire

Move until the lights go out

Iron crown, we don't lose count

Bridge

Lights drop black and the room holds still

Your hand stays on my wrist — no words at all

No name to call it by now

Just two shadows locked in the same glow

The iron crown sits high above us

Cold metal humming like a warning — stay inside, don't move, don't leave this place

Chorus

Iron crown on the wire

Hold the pulse, hold the fire

Move until the lights go out

Iron crown, we don't lose count