The Iron Tithe

[Verse 1] The silver spires are choked with vines of lead, The gods are ghosts, or worse—they’re simply dead. We trade our prayers for rusted blades of steel, In mud and blood, the only truth we feel. The ancient banners rot in blackened rain, While kings drink wine to drown the common pain. No prophecy, no chosen one in sight, Just starving wolves within the endless night. [Pre-Chorus] The forge is screaming... The sky is bleeding... Hold the line! [Chorus] Forge the soul in the winter’s breath! Dance with giants, laugh at death! Broken crowns in the hollow dirt, Liturgy of ash and hurt! Through the shadow, through the grime, We are the bastards of our time! [Verse 2] I’ve walked the path where even shadows fear to tread, Between the living and the heaps of unblessed dead. The runes are faded on this blighted, jagged stone, A king of nothing on a fractured onyx throne. There is no magic here, just alchemy and greed, The earth is barren, but we plant a bitter seed. Check the scabbard, tighten up the leather strap, The world’s a carcass caught within a golden trap. [Chorus] Forge the soul in the winter’s breath! Dance with giants, laugh at death! Broken crowns in the hollow dirt, Liturgy of ash and hurt! Through the shadow, through the grime, We are the bastards of our time! [Bridge 1 - The Decompression] Sometimes the forest speaks your name... A gentle spark within the flame... Take a breath... let the smoke clear... There is no monster... only fear. [Verse 3] The titans wake beneath the mountain’s crust, Turning the legends into clouds of iron dust. We aren't heroes, we're the scavengers of light, The final flicker in the middle of the fight. No mercy asked, and surely none is given, Under a sky that’s jagged and is riven. [Final Chorus] Forge the soul in the winter’s breath! Dance with giants, laugh at death! Broken crowns in the hollow dirt, Liturgy of ash and hurt! Through the shadow, through the grime, We are the bastards of our time! [Outro] The signal is fading... The iron is cold. Let the story... Be told.