[Verse 1]
Paper crowns in concrete towers
Cold hands signing strangers’ deaths
Silk ties stained with distant fire
They sell the smoke
They steal our breath
I watched the screen paint deserts red
Numbers climb like nameless graves
They toast the storm in crystal glasses
While mothers drown in tidal waves
[Chorus]
We are the blood they calculate
Just one more war to validate
Hear my anger
Hear my hate
Torn apart by the iron teeth of the state
I won’t bow
I won’t break
Set this fear in me awake
From the ashes
From the ache
I still scream at the iron teeth of the state
[Verse 2]
You wrap your lies in sacred language
Call it duty
Call it pride
But every flag you raise for glory
Hides another child inside
I feel the guilt
I feel the fury
Every name that I can’t save
You write history in margins
We write truth across the grave
[Chorus]
We are the blood they calculate
Just one more war to validate
Hear my anger
Hear my hate
Torn apart by the iron teeth of the state
I won’t bow
I won’t break
Set this fear in me awake
From the ashes
From the ache
I still scream at the iron teeth of the state
[Instrumental Break – Guitar Solos]
[Rhythmic chugs open into a twin-harmony lead line
One guitar climbing
The other descending
First solo burns fast and dissonant
Bending into a frantic
Chaotic run
Second solo slows into a mournful
Melodic theme
Wide vibrato on long notes
Then both guitars lock into a unison riff that slams back into the groove.]
[Bridge]
How many hearts
Will you harvest for power
How many lives
Will you drain by the hour
I count the cost
On my own shaking hands
One broken voice
Against your marching plans (hey!)
[Chorus]
We are the blood they calculate
Just one more war to validate
Hear my anger
Hear my hate
Torn apart by the iron teeth of the state
I won’t bow
I won’t break
Set this fear in me awake
From the ashes
From the ache
I still scream at the iron teeth of the state
(Still scream at the iron teeth of the state)