Steel On Steel

[Intro: Full Orchestra]
[Strings rise slow
Brass hums low
Soft timpani rolls]
[Electric guitar echoes a solemn melody]

[Verse 1: Male vocals
Cathedral reverb]
Ashes fall where shadows creep
A mother weeps
The earth can't sleep
The iron skies they thunder loud
Men march blind beneath the shroud

Steel on steel
The clash
The cry
Echoes of lives just asking why
Blood runs thick where dreams dissolve
A riddle of hate no soul can solve

[Chorus: Choir joins
Soaring harmonies]
Evil’s march
A tide
A storm
A wicked hand in human form
We pray
We scream
But still it roars
The endless song of evil wars

[Verse 2: Male vocals
Darker tone]
Fields of fire
No stars to guide
The rivers choke
The seas divide
Children born to war's cruel hymn
Hope grows faint as light grows dim

Each step forward
Ten steps lost
The price of greed
An endless cost
The vultures circle
Feast on trust
All dreams crumble
Turned to dust