Cold brick mornings, frost in the lungs Council block prayers where the sirens sung Never asked fate for a second chance Learned more truth from a sideways glance Steel-toe ghosts on the station floor Every exit looked like another war Built my calm where the panic lives Smile too much and the city takes No saints left in these underpasses Just hard men counting invisible caskets Everybody loud till the lights cut out Then they whisper names they won’t say out loud ⸻ PRE Don’t mistake stillness… For mercy. ⸻ CHORUS (Salt Crown King) SALT CROWN KING! Stone don’t blink. Steel don’t bend. Cold don’t think. No surrender. No permission. No forgiveness. No condition. Raise that mask. Bury fear. I was built… To still be here. SALT CROWN KING! ⸻ Verse 2 (Blackwater) You see armour… I remember skin. You see victories… I remember them. Every scar got another name Every face still burns the same Whole city’s built on borrowed breath Every promise got a taste of death Don’t mistake silence for peace Quiet roads hide the biggest beasts Never chased glory. Only tomorrow. Funny how both came wrapped in sorrow. ⸻ PRE Look me dead… In both eyes. Tell me… Who survives? ⸻ CHORUS SALT CROWN KING! Stone don’t crack. Never kneel. Never look back. Empty throne. Empty street. Still ten toes. Still concrete. Raise that mask. Kill that doubt. Only wolves… Come this route. SALT CROWN KING! ⸻ BRIDGE Heartbeat. Nothing else. Everything drops away. One breath. One heartbeat. Then… ⸻ FINAL VERSE (Blackwater) I don’t wear ghosts… They wear me. Every road still somewhere near me. If tomorrow asks my name… Tell tomorrow… I already came. ⸻ FINAL CHORUS (Huge) SALT CROWN KING! Stone don’t blink. Steel don’t bend. Cold don’t think. No surrender. No permission. No forgiveness. No condition. Raise that mask. Face that flame. Even shadows… Know my name. SALT CROWN KING! (Ends immediately.) No outro. No resolution. Cut to black.
