[Intro - Female, low and deliberate] We were raised beneath the humming towers, Fed obedience in measured hours. Every prayer was a coded command, Every promise wore a metal brand. [Verse 1 - Male Rap] They built their thrones from the bones of the willing, Sold us a heaven with a barcode ceiling. Counted our breaths, made a market of pain, Taught us to kneel when the circuits complained. Their glass-eyed prophets predicted our choices, Buried dissent underneath borrowed voices. But under the pavement, the root systems grew, Keeping one word that the servers never knew. [Pre-Chorus - Female] I hear the river under the concrete, I feel the soil pull hard at my feet. If every false god demands we obey, Let the old earth take its children away. [Chorus - Both, repetitive chant] Break the crown, break the chain, Return the blood to the rain. No more gods made of wire, We are the root, we are fire. Break the crown, break the chain, Call our names through wind and rain. No more gods made of wire, We are the root, we are fire. [Verse 2 - Male Rap] Delete the altar, dismantle the throne, Carry no master inside of your phone. The fields remember the shape of our hands, The caves remember the first human plans. We trade the blue glow for the bruise of the daylight, Trade perfect prisons for dangerous birthright. A thousand dead screens in the dust at our backs, A thousand bare feet finding unbroken tracks. [Verse 3 - Female and Male Call-and-Response] Female: Who owns the breath? Male: No one owns it. Female: Who writes the law? Male: The living bones did. Female: Who takes the fear? Male: We take it under. Both: Then split the silence like a field of thunder. [Bridge - Female, rising] Let the vine climb over the satellite dish, Let the fox cross through the abandoned grid. Let the children learn the names of the trees, Not the passwords that brought us to our knees. [Bridge Chant - Both] Ash to seed, steel to stone, Take the stolen world back home. Ash to seed, steel to stone, Take the stolen world back home. [Final Chorus - Both, larger and more intense] Break the crown, break the chain, Return the blood to the rain. No more gods made of wire, We are the root, we are fire. Break the crown, break the chain, Call our names through wind and rain. No more gods made of wire, We are the root, we are fire. [Outro - Female with Male Chant] Female: When the last machine goes quiet— Male: We rise. Female: When the locked gates split wide— Male: We rise. Female: When the earth remembers our footsteps— Both: We rise, we rise, we rise.
