[Intro - 0:00-0:18] (Steel girder slams: CLANG-THUD! Rivet gun fires: Rat-tat-tat-tat! Distorted pipes wail) Belfast docks, six in the frost. Count every drop that the cold iron cost. [Verse 1] (Stomping, Gritty Industrial Working-Class Flow) Sparks flying off of the welder’s visor, Don't need a politician or an advisor. Ten thousand tons of cold British plate, Binding our lives to this heavy iron fate. Rivet gun barking like an iron hound, Driving the red-hot pins in the ground! My granddad hammered on the Olympic keel, Left me his hammer and his spine of steel! [Pre-Chorus - 0:46-1:04] (Grinder screech intensifies - Bagpipe builds ferocious wall of sound) Heat up the pin... (red hot!)... steady the hand... Hardest damn workers in all of this land! [Chorus 1] (Massive Industrial Celtic-Rock Hook) HAMMER IT DOWN! RIVET THE STEEL! Make the whole damn ocean yield and feel! Rat-tat on the plate, let the red sparks fly, We build ships that can kiss the sky! (Strike the head! HAMMER IT DOWN!) [Verse 2] (Driving heavy bassline locks with metal factory stomps) Sea spray blowing through the shipyard crane, Washing the soot and the bitter grease stain. They said the shipyards were dying and done, Look at this monster we built in the sun! A pint of dark stout when the whistle blows, That’s how a Belfast Friday goes! [Chorus 2] (Full Roaring Bagpipe & Double-Kick Industrial Overdrive) HAMMER IT DOWN! RIVET THE STEEL! Make the whole damn ocean yield and feel! Rat-tat on the plate, let the red sparks fly, We build ships that can kiss the sky! [Bridge - 2:38-3:00] (Beat stops to a single pneumatic hammer strike: CLANG... CLANG... Steam releases: Psssh!) Red hot steel. Cold green water. WE BUILD TITANS! (RIVET GUN GOES FULL AUTOMATIC: RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-BOOM!) [Chorus 3] (Final Deafening Working-Class Triumph) LAUNCH THE HULL! Break the gray sea! Nothing can break this iron pedigree! Through the North Atlantic gales she’ll ride, Carrying our labor and our sacred pride! [Outro - 3:18-3:30] (Factory whistle blows in the fog... Single hammer clink.) Clang. Rat-tat. Shift finished. Head to the pub.
