[Intro — whispered] Turn the key slowly. Let the dead machinery remember your name. [Verse 1] Beneath the rust, the engines breathe A buried pulse beneath our feet The warning lamps have all gone black No hand remains to pull us back Teeth of iron grind the soil Feeding on the bones of toil Every oath we carved in stone Turns to dust around the throne [Pre-Chorus] Do you hear the chamber closing? Do you feel the pressure rise? There is no god inside the furnace Only hunger wearing eyes [Chorus] Gears of oblivion, turn over me Crush every promise, grind every plea I am the fracture beneath your command A ruined world held in a dying hand [Verse 2] The towers bow like broken crowns Ash falls warm through hollow towns We count the names on copper plates While something vast unlocks the gates Your voice arrives through severed lines A thin confession between the signs You say the end is almost here I say it has been breathing near [Whispered Bridge] Come closer. I want you to hear what the machine made of us. [Breakdown] Bury the sun. Bury the sky. Bury the hands that taught us why. Turn. Crush. Erase. No future. No shelter. No face. [Chorus] Gears of oblivion, turn over me Crush every promise, grind every plea I am the fracture beneath your command A ruined world held in a dying hand [Final Chorus] Gears of oblivion, tear through the frame Leave only cinders where we carried a name When every last engine collapses to dust The silence will know what became of us [Outro — intimate whisper] The key is still turning. Don’t look behind you.
