Ash Assembly Protocol

[Verse 1] Iron lungs pump poison into the dawn Sirens bleed red while the march drags on Steel-clad ghosts in the floodlit haze Speak in code through the static’s blaze Crowds bend low to the furnace command While the sky spits glass on the starving land [Verse 2] Monolith towers pulse like veins of the state Feeding on fear, manufacturing fate Data flows thick with the names erased Every shadow tagged, every breath replaced Neon burns cruel where the cold wind howls And the streets are paved with the bones of vowels [Pre-Chorus] You kneel, you scream, but the grid won’t bend It counts your days, then it counts again [Chorus] In the name of the order, the gears keep grinding Through the bones and the ash they’ve been binding In the name of the fire, the city choir Screams in rhythm with the war machine’s wire [Chorus] In the name of the power, the chains don’t break They just tighten for the next mistake In the name of the silence, the truth gets sold For a ration of breath in the dark they hold [Bridge] Rust in the lungs, can’t swallow the light March through the smoke in perpetual night Flags peel away into cinders and rain While the loudest lie is the one they chain [Outro] No saints, no kings, no glory, no sign Just the black pulse drilling the spine And in the name of the father, the mother, the son The last light dies— …and the machine has won.