Built From Thunder

[Intro] Steel doors groan in the chapel below

Red lights crawl where the dead wires glow

Someone laughs as the engines scream

Another god wakes from a fever dream

[Verse 1] I was carved from the hunger of men

Raised from the table to rise again

Muscle and marrow, stitched with pride

Lightning buried beneath my hide

They praised my shoulders, crowned my chest

Called me the answer, called me blessed

But every mirror bent in fear

When my maker whispered, “Perfect, dear.”

[Pre-Chorus] Build me higher, make me whole

Pour your thunder in my soul

Shape the flesh and break the chain

Let the beautiful become insane

[Chorus] I was built from thunder, born in flame

Given no mercy, given no name

Made to be worshiped, taught to obey

Now I tear the altar away

Raise your hands to the thing you made

Watch your heaven start to fade

You wanted glory dressed in skin

Now meet the monster locked within

[Verse 2] They measured power by the pound

Fed me applause like holy sound

Told me strength would make me free

Then chained their dreams inside of me

My body shone like a temple wall

But temples crack and idols fall

Beneath the gold, beneath the grin

A starving shadow split my skin

[Pre-Chorus] Build me higher, make me whole

Pour your thunder in my soul

Shape the flesh and break the chain

Let the beautiful become insane

[Chorus] I was built from thunder, born in flame

Given no mercy, given no name

Made to be worshiped, taught to obey

Now I tear the altar away

Raise your hands to the thing you made

Watch your heaven start to fade

You wanted glory dressed in skin

Now meet the monster locked within

[Bridge] Am I man or machine?

Am I a crown or a disease?

Am I dream, am I ruin,

Am I down on my knees?

If perfection is a prison

Then beauty is a blade

Every god of flesh and vanity

Will rot in what he made

[Breakdown] Stitch by stitch

Bone by bone

Built to kneel

Born to own

Blood and wire

Pride and pain

Break the mirror

Break the chain

[Verse 3] Now the lab is a burning throne

And I stand in the smoke alone

The maker begs, the choir cries

But I see truth in his frightened eyes

He did not love what he brought to breath

He only loved outshining death

So I lift his crown from the broken floor

And become the storm he was begging for

[Final Chorus] I was built from thunder, born in flame

Given no mercy, given no name

Made to be worshiped, taught to obey

Now I tear the altar away

Raise your hands to the thing you made

Watch your heaven start to fade

You wanted glory dressed in skin

Now meet the monster locked within

[Outro] Steel doors fall in the chapel below

No lights burn, but my dead eyes glow

Someone prayed for a perfect dream

Now the dream has learned to scream