Iron Tide Rising 9

Verse

Blackwater rising through the grating floor

Steel ribs bucking where the current roars

Hands up pulling till the shoulders crack

Salt on my teeth and the engine black

Two hundred chests against one wall

Waterline climbing an inch at a time

Crown of chrome and the wire goes cold

Bones give way before the tide

Pre-Chorus

Push through the current, cut through the rust

Don't breathe till the numbers run out

Hold the crown until it breaks in two

Let the water take what the blood can't do

I hold on tighter than I know how

The iron hums louder than my vow

Hands locked into the frame and steel

I don't let go no matter how real

Chorus

Iron tide rising, pulling at the spine

Crown won't crack till the last light falls behind

I keep my grip where the water runs thin

Under the grid the current starts again

Verse

Ribs give way to the pressure under

Sweat turns to steam on a hundred brows

Kick drum splits the dark like an axe through wire

Crown won't break no matter how it's fired

Pre-Chorus

Push through the current, cut through the rust

Don't breathe till the numbers run out

Hold the crown until it breaks in two

Let the water take what the blood can't do

Chorus

Iron tide rising, pulling at the spine

Crown won't crack till the last light falls behind

I keep my grip where the water runs thin

Under the grid the current starts again

Bridge

Not my arms holding this steel line

It's every hand still counting time

Salt eats through but I won't let go

The current wants what the crown holds low

Every broken rib gives way to one more hand

Crown don't break until we're all one bone

I hold on tighter than the iron can break

Nothing underneath this floor will take

Pre-Chorus

Push through the current, cut through the rust

Don't breathe till the numbers run out

Hold the crown until it breaks in two

Let the water take what the blood can't do

Chorus

Iron tide rising, pulling at the spine

Crown won't crack till the last light falls behind

I keep my grip where the water runs thin

Under the grid the current starts again