Concrete Cathedral 9

Verse 1

Sixteen turns of a rusty stair

Sweat and smoke on the painted rail

Every brick holds one hundred prayers

Echoes that refuse to fail

Concrete holds what silence keeps

Ribs still ringing from the last hymn

I was built here, I was sealed beneath

Where the city stops and silence breathes

Pre-Chorus

Nowhere else can hold this heat

Nowhere soft enough to bleed

This is where the marrow meets the beat

This is what my name has freed

Chorus

Concrete cathedral, rising through the floor

Every grain remembers what it was for

Hands go up in a hundred different keys

Nothing built me, nothing broke these knees

Concrete cathedral, I don't need the sky

Blood and mortar, this is where I live tonight

Verse 2

Bassline splits the wall down the middle

Paint cracks open like a second tongue

I was poured through every single cellar

Every pipe still sings my name as it runs

Steel beam sweats with the current running

Iron heart of something that won't drown

Twenty years and I still hold the line

This is where the city learned to climb

Pre-Chorus

Nowhere else can hold this heat

Nowhere soft enough to bleed

This is where the marrow meets the beat

This is what my name has freed

Chorus

Concrete cathedral, rising through the floor

Every grain remembers what it was for

Hands go up in a hundred different keys

Nothing built me, nothing broke these knees

Concrete cathedral, I don't need the sky

Blood and mortar, this is where I live tonight

Bridge

Some men walk alone when dawn arrives

I hold the current till the lights ignite

Steel goes warm beneath my palms as I survive

Every pillar swears it will not die

This was built to outlast every name

This is what a city looks like when it claims its throne

Chorus

Concrete cathedral, rising through the floor

Every grain remembers what it was for

Hands go up in a hundred different keys

Nothing built me, nothing broke these knees

Concrete cathedral, I don't need the sky

Blood and mortar, this is where I live tonight