///*****/// [Intro] No map admits the road through a collapsed mountain mine lit by one failing lamp, Yet boot and heartbeat mark a stubborn time. The dark has learned the language of command, But not the word that makes a free soul kneel. [Verse 1] The gate is barred with promises and rifles, The herald reads surrender from a scroll. I see the ink run black beneath his fingers, But no decree can requisition soul. We wore our losses underneath our armor, We learned to breathe where hope was rationed thin. Now every footstep magnifies the answer: The walls are strong, but stronger hearts begin. [Pre-Chorus] Every shadow has a border, Every tyrant has an hour. When the heart rejects the order, Even dust remembers power. [Chorus] Feel the fire inside the stone! Let the hammering heavens hear our cry. Feel the fire inside the stone! 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. Feel the fire inside the stone! Raise the truth until it cuts across the sky. [Verse 2] They promised peace, but sent us rising water and the owners who abandoned the rescue. 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 a warm red vein glowing inside black stone; 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] Feel the fire inside the stone! We were born to stand, not wait to die. Through the smoke and through the wound, carry the living fire. Feel the fire inside the stone! Raise the truth across the sky. [Bridge] If I return alone, remember this: we will carve our own road to daylight. 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 rising melodic solo beginning low and claustrophobic, then opening into wide harmonies as the imagined daylight appears] [Rhythm guitars hold the central motif while bass and drums widen the battlefield.] [Verse 3] This is the tale of miners trapped underground turning despair into collective strength. 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] Feel the fire inside the stone! Let the last horizon answer to our cry. Feel the fire inside the stone! 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. Feel the fire inside the stone! Raise the truth until it cuts across the sky.
