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Rome’s Iron Fist Lyrics by Virus Inc

Stomping with iron feet
Drums beat out the march
Dust in the throat of empires
A city built on flesh

They came with banners and swords
Salted the roads with grief
Took the bread from the mouth
Made a market of the weak
Hands on the neck of the world
Boots on a mother’s spine
Every gate they opened
Opened on a grave inside

Hear the chains on the stones
Hear the crack of the bone
All the conquered pray
But the wolves make them pay

Iron fist, fire in the sky
Built on the ones they made die
Iron fist, blood in the stone
Killers of Christ took the dome
Iron fist, fire in the sky
Empire of rot never drys
Iron fist, blood in the stone
Kneel to the grave you called home

They raped the fields blind
Took the sons in lines
Burned the names from the walls
Then called it holy light
Crucified bodies for sport
Broke the back of the road
Stripped the gold from the dead
Fed the hounds what they owed

Hear the chains on the stones
Hear the crack of the bone
All the conquered pray
But the wolves make them pay

Iron fist, fire in the sky
Built on the ones they made die
Iron fist, blood in the stone
Killers of Christ took the dome
Iron fist, fire in the sky
Empire of rot never drys
Iron fist, blood in the stone
Kneel to the grave you called home

How cruel the altar
How false the fame
Murder made sacred
And crowned in His name
You nailed the lamb
Then kissed the cross
Now every empire
Rots beneath your gloss

March
Crush
Break
Take
Steal
Slay
Spit
Spine

[Trumpet and guitar duel]
Wail through the ruin
Slash through the smoke
Bending the wound
Till the empire chokes

Iron fist, fire in the sky
Built on the ones they made die
Iron fist, blood in the stone
Killers of Christ took the dome
Iron fist, fire in the sky
Empire of rot never drys
Iron fist, blood in the stone
All that you stole turns to tone

Legions falls into the dirt
The empire fades like marching ghosts
Rome is only ashes
And the ash remembers most