The Portal

Intro

Steel meets stone

Circuit sparks

We opened something

Verse 1

Flickering screens in the server bay

Cobalt wires hum a foreign song

We patched the walls on a Tuesday

Didn't know the seal had been down so long

Runes ignite on the factory floor

Elves with arrows circle the drones

A mage raises hands at the loading door

We're trespassers in their crystal thrones

Pre-Chorus

Wired hands and iron hearts

They see us as invaders from the dark

Chorus

We didn't mean to tear the veil

The portal bloomed from our command

Now steel and sorcery collide

Human fingers on a magic land

Post-Chorus

Bzzt-bzzt-fire

Bzzt-bzzt-fire

Metal meets the pyre

Verse 2

Dwarves swing hammers at the servo arms

Golems crumble where the shadows crawl

A witch reads circuits like a charm

Our algorithms answered to her call

Outsiders in a world that breathes

They curse the hum of our machine hearts

But somewhere in this tangled weave

Two civilizations tear apart

Pre-Chorus

We built the bridge without a key

Now both our worlds refuse to be

Chorus

We didn't mean to tear the veil

The portal bloomed from our command

Now steel and sorcery collide

Human fingers on a magic land

Post-Chorus

Bzzt-bzzt-fire

Bzzt-bzzt-fire

Metal meets the pyre

Bridge

(And if the dragons circle overhead)

We won't raise a flag we don't understand

(And if the griffins shred the scaffold lines)

We'll offer up a truce in code and sign

Maybe magic just needs a hand

Maybe machines can learn to mend

Grenades and glyphs on the same thin strand

One broken bridge we built to bend

Chorus

We didn't mean to tear the veil

The portal bloomed from our command

Now steel and sorcery collide

Human fingers on a magic land

Post-Chorus

Bzzt-bzzt-fire

Bzzt-bzzt-fire

Metal meets the pyre

(A gate we can't deny)

Bzzt-bzzt-fire

Bzzt-bzzt-fire

Open eyes to a new sky

Outro

Steel meets stone

Circuit sparks

We live here now

Steel meets stone

Circuit sparks

We live here now