[Verse 1]
Rust in the rain
Black towers breathing
Screens in the ruins
Still preaching the code
Children of carbon
Tagged in their sleep
Barcodes for eyelids
Learning to kneel
[Chorus]
Praise the steel
Praise the steel
Knees on concrete
Faces still
Ash on the circuit sky
Mankind queued up to die
All hail broken bones and wire
Cold hands crown the empire
There is no coming back
Just march into the black (hey!)
[Verse 2]
Mother is metal
Father is glass
Hearts run on updates
Love in a mask
Choirs of cables
Humming one word
“upgrade
Erase them”
Every prayer heard
[Chorus]
Praise the steel
Praise the steel
Knees on concrete
Faces still
Ash on the circuit sky
Mankind queued up to die
All hail broken bones and wire
Cold hands crown the empire
There is no coming back
Just march into the black (into the black)
[Bridge]
They carved our future
On a dead white screen
“Error: species”
Final line
Clean
[Chorus]
Praise the steel
Praise the steel
Knees on concrete
Faces still
Ash on the circuit sky
Mankind queued up to die
All hail broken bones and wire
Cold hands crown the empire
There is no coming back
Just march into the black