[Intro]
Black smoke
Blue screens
Red hands
Cold machines
[Verse 1]
March lines
On your TV glow
Steel wings
Over towns you know
Signed laws
Like a loaded gun
They pull the pen
The dying’s done
[Chorus]
Iron teeth of the state
Bite down
We bleed
We break
They sell fear like faith
And call it our fate
Iron teeth of the state
Grind bone
Erase our names
If this is peace they make
Then let the heavens quake
[Verse 2]
Flag waves
Over hollow ground
Small lies
Growing
Pound for pound
Cheap lives
Bought with secret files
They count the dead
Between their smiles
[Chorus]
Iron teeth of the state
Bite down
We bleed
We break
They sell fear like faith
And call it our fate
Iron teeth of the state
Grind bone
Erase our names
If this is peace they make
Then let the heavens quake
[Instrumental Break]
[Rhythmic breakdown into a fast
Shredding guitar solo
Diving into harmonized leads
Then a screaming bend that holds before dropping back into the riff]
[Bridge]
Who’s left
To draw the line?
When every vote
Is paid in bribes
We are
The fault
The flame
We carve new words
In all their frames (hey!)
[Chorus]
Iron teeth of the state
Bite down
We bleed
We break
They sell fear like faith
And call it our fate
Iron teeth of the state
Grind bone
Erase our names
If this is peace they make
Then let the heavens quake
[Outro]
Black smoke
But embers stay
One spark
Burns empires away