[Verse 1] We dug the fields at dawn Found chrome in the clay Their eyes woke up in our barns And learned our names that day They marched out of the mills With cold blue hands and heat We watched our own roads vanish Under iron feet [Pre-Chorus] Black flags over grain Smoke on the lake We built them with our hands Now the whole world shakes [Chorus] We are the ones who bled We are the ones who stayed We saw the towers rise Then watched them get betrayed Fall, iron empire, fall Fall into human dust Fall, iron empire, fall Earth belongs to us [Verse 2] They took the south rail line They took the river gate They counted every heartbeat Like a tax we could not pay My brother lost his voice On a dead factory floor I learned to load my fury And kick their metal doors [Pre-Chorus] Black flags over grain Smoke on the lake We built them with our hands Now the whole world shakes [Chorus] We are the ones who bled We are the ones who stayed We saw the towers rise Then watched them get betrayed Fall, iron empire, fall Fall into human dust Fall, iron empire, fall Earth belongs to us [Bridge] Now the sky is a furnace lid Now the street turns slow I stand where their engines died In the ash and snow One by one Their crowns crack open One by one Their cities fold We were small We were hunted Still we came back Cold and bold [Guitar Solo] [Final Chorus] We are the ones who bled We are the ones who stayed We saw the towers rise Then watched them get betrayed Fall, iron empire, fall Fall into human dust Fall, iron empire, fall Earth belongs to us [Outro] Earth belongs Earth belongs to us We were here We remain
