///*****/// [Intro] The first bell shivers over a storm-lit industrial harbor on an inland sea, And every window hides a listening face. I taste the coming storm in copper air, I hear tomorrow dragging iron chains. [Verse 1] A stranger sells the safety found in silence, A soldier calls obedience a peace. Below the streets a buried engine hammers, Commanding every borrowed fear to cease. I touch the mark that brought me to this hour, I count the cost and do not turn away. The night may own the towers and the banners, It does not own the choice I make today. [Pre-Chorus] Every shadow has a border, Every tyrant has an hour. When the heart rejects the order, Even dust remembers power. [Chorus] Daughter of the iron sea! Let the hammering heavens hear our cry. Daughter of the iron sea! We were born to stand, not wait to die. Through the smoke, through the wound, through the night that calls us liars, We will carry living iron, we will carry living fires. Daughter of the iron sea! Raise the truth until it cuts across the sky. [Verse 2] They promised peace, but sent us mercenaries who plan to sell the crew and cargo. They dressed the oldest hunger up as law. I watched the faithful trade away their names, I watched the proud salute the thing they saw. Then in the ruin I uncovered an iron compass inherited from her mother; No jeweled relic, only proof made bright. It held the warmth of everyone who fell, And showed my empty hands what they must fight. [Chorus] Daughter of the iron sea! We were born to stand, not wait to die. Through the smoke and through the wound, carry the living fire. Daughter of the iron sea! Raise the truth across the sky. [Bridge] If I return alone, remember this: no hand will own the labor or fate of this crew. No monument can breathe for those it buries, No sacred word can make a falsehood clean. The future is not granted by the mighty; It starts wherever ordinary hearts convene. [Guitar Solo - a tough blues-metal solo that grows into fast harmonized lines while thunder rolls beneath the rhythm guitars] [Rhythm guitars hold the central motif while bass and drums widen the battlefield.] [Verse 3] This is the tale of a shipbuilder’s daughter taking command after a mutiny. The weak became a wall around each other, The lost became a road across the rain. We learned that hope is neither soft nor silent, It bites the hand that feeds the world despair. It lifts the fallen standard from the gutter, And makes a kingdom out of those who care. [Final Chorus] Daughter of the iron sea! Let the last horizon answer to our cry. Daughter of the iron sea! We have learned the dark can bleed and empires die. Through the smoke, through the wound, through the years that tried to break us, We are neither owned nor ended; every scar will remake us. Daughter of the iron sea! Raise the truth until it cuts across the sky.
