Hold the Crown of Iron (Version 2)

Verse

Iron in the marrow of my hands

Floor still shaking from the hundredth band

Sweat runs down into the steel below

Crown won't loosen, let it go

Pupils blown wide as a black mirror breaks

Every pulse is one more empire at stake

Hands grip tighter where the light should come

Nothing soft can take what iron's become

Pre-Chorus

Tide tries to pull me down through the floor

Crown digs deeper than I need no more

Hold it up till the sun gives in

Don't let daylight ever cross my skin

Chorus

Never take off the crown of iron

Bones won't bend when the day begins to burn

I keep holding, I keep turning

Till the light forgets how to return

Verse

Windows crack where the heat gets through

Same cold pulse in every vein like glue

City stirs with a thousand waking hearts

One fist holds it all, no room for start

Pre-Chorus

Tide tries to pull me down through the floor

Crown digs deeper than I need no more

Hold it up till the sun gives in

Don't let daylight ever cross my skin

Chorus

Never take off the crown of iron

Bones won't bend when the day begins to burn

I keep holding, I keep turning

Till the light forgets how to return

Bridge

Sky turns white but I don't feel it fade

Iron stays hard even as the grey arrives

Every hand that reaches for my grip will find

A fist still locked around a heavier kind

Chorus

Never take off the crown of iron

Bones won't bend when the day begins to burn

I keep holding, I keep turning

Till the light forgets how to return