[Intro – solo piano, slow, ominous] (low descending chords, building tension) [Verse 1] Hear the timber crack beneath the wheel Iron veins begin to crawl and feel Through the soil where the old gods sleep Something stirs… and it runs too deep Smoke on the wind where the black tracks bite Day turns dim in the choking light Coins and kings in a tightening noose Feeding fire they cannot reduce [Pre-Chorus] You can’t slow it down… You can’t turn it round… [Chorus] Iron roots run deep below Grinding bones in the undertow No hand on the brake, no soul to save Just a roaring path to an open grave [Verse 2] Steel and hunger in a lover’s dance Blind men betting on a dying chance Cut the green just to feed the flame But the earth won’t ever play that game Feel that tremor beneath your feet That’s the past and the present meet And the whisper once soft and low Now a storm you can’t outgrow [Pre-Chorus] You can’t slow it down… You can’t turn it round… [Chorus] Iron roots run deep below Dragging truth where you won’t dare go No prayer in the steam, no god in sight Just the scream of the endless night [Instrumental Break – flute vs electric guitar duel] [Bridge – breakdown, half-time feel] It was buried… long before your time… In the dirt… in the dark… in the rhyme… Now it rises… through the steel you laid… Every debt… will be repaid… [Final Chorus – full power] Iron roots run deep below Tearing down all you think you know No final stop, no last goodbye Just the sound of the world gone dry [Outro – return to piano, fading] (slow, unresolved chords)
