Verse 1 I held the line with iron hands Drew it deep into the ground Spoke like stone across the lands Never let my voice unbound Watched the guilty lower their eyes Watched the faithful stand apart Truth was sharp and clean as ice But it wintered in my heart Pre-Chorus You call it strength, you call it law You say a blade must cut But steel remembers every bone It ever opened up Chorus No mercy leaves a scar On the judged and on the judge Every line we carve in stone Leaves a mark that doesn’t budge Justice walks with heavy boots It doesn’t travel far No mercy leaves a scar Verse 2 I taught my son to never bend To guard his name like flame To turn his back on faithless friends And never soften blame Now I see it in his stare The frost I planted there He wears conviction like a crown And doesn’t feel the air Pre-Chorus We say the world needs harder men We say the weak must fall But silence grows in iron rooms Where no one weeps at all Chorus No mercy leaves a scar On the broken and the strong Every oath we nail in place Echoes longer than the wrong Justice takes and never asks Who we truly are No mercy leaves a scar Bridge The fire kept the wolves away But burned the fields to bone The house still stands against the night But no one calls it home There’s a cost to being granite To never crack or yield The battle may be righteous But the heart becomes a field Final Chorus (quieter, heavier) No mercy leaves a scar On the hand that holds the scale Every verdict etched in stone Writes a line we cannot veil You can guard the gate forever You can bar it from afar But no mercy leaves a scar Outro (stripped) I held the line. I held it hard. No mercy… Leaves a scar.
