Metal Guardians (FM) | Solania

[Intro] [distorted electric guitar riff, double-kick drums] [orchestral strings and brass stabs] [harmonized guitar lead] [Verse 1] [palm-muted guitar chugging] Steel my shoulders, ash in my lungs Footprints burned into bones of the ruins Every breath counts numbers of the ones that I've lost Every step I take another swarm comes A thousand crawling shapes [growled vocals] know my frame But I still raise my hands like a rusted cross Light on the hillside never reaches me Light used to hold them now it flickers thin I'm stitched to the shadows where the teeth all gleam I stand in the black, I hear the hollow core grin [Chorus] [full band, soaring vocals] I am the metal guardian Standing in the dark, still holding on A thousand monsters circle in But I won't fall, I won't be gone If this is endless let it be I wear the night as armor over me I am the metal guardian Alone, but I don't break [Verse 2] [bass-driven rhythm, staccato guitar] Cars on the concrete, teeth on the air Names of the fallen woven in my hair Every scar a tally on the wrong side of time Fear crawls my spine like a cold black vine But my will keeps cutting through the tangled line Helmets like headstones stacked by the gate Every dent in my armor is another escape Light keeps its distance, I keep my ground If hope won't find me, then I'll hunt it down [Chorus] [full band, driving double-kick] I am the metal guardian Standing in the dark, still holding on A thousand monsters circle in But I won't fall, I won't be gone If this is endless let it be I wear the night as armor over me I am the metal guardian Alone, but I don't break [vocal ad-lib] (I don't break) [Bridge] [half-time feel, heavy orchestral layers] Endless, endless Every step the same But I'll be the question that outlives the pain Endless, endless Let the numbers rise I've run out of mercy but I've not run dry [growled vocal] (Dry!) [Chorus] [soaring vocals, harmonized guitars] I am the metal guardian Standing in the dark, still holding on A thousand monsters circle in But I won't fall, I won't be gone If this is endless let it be I swear this night will answer back to me I am the metal guardian Alone, but I don't break [vocal ad-lib] (I don't break) [Outro] [orchestral brass and strings] [final guitar chug, cymbal crash]