[Verse 1]
Sirens in my veins
Paper laws on loaded guns
You smile from your parade
While we choke on what you've done
You trade our lives for gold
Cheap applause and poisoned air
I bite down on my rage
Till I taste metal everywhere
[Chorus]
We rise like thunder
Cracking through your crown
You built this tower on our backs
We’re here to tear it down
You can cage our bodies
But you can’t chain our sound
We rise like thunder
We will not bow down
[Verse 2]
Your flag over the ruins
Doesn’t hide the broken bones
You call it “order
Safety”
I call it burning homes
You dress your lies in uniforms
March them through our streets
But every boot you put on us
Becomes the drum of your defeat (hey!)
[Chorus]
We rise like thunder
Cracking through your crown
You built this tower on our backs
We’re here to tear it down
You can cage our bodies
But you can’t chain our sound
We rise like thunder
We will not bow down
[Bridge]
I am not your number
I am not your war
Every scar you gave me
Is a key to kick your door
[Instrumental Break]
[Explosive
Driving guitar solo screaming over a relentless riff
Climbing higher and faster before cutting to a held
Bending note]
[Chorus]
We rise like thunder
Cracking through your crown
You built this tower on our backs
We’re here to tear it down
You can cage our bodies
But you can’t chain our sound
We rise like thunder
We will not bow down
[Outro]
Write this on your palace walls
We are done being small
We rise like thunder
We rise or none at all