Intro
Oh oh
The scales are tilting
Look to the north
Verse 1
Old maps on a mahogany desk
They see the Levant
But forget the Anatolian hills
Silent shadows stretch long
Crossing the borders
Tracing the silk roads and the ruins
Israel eyes the southern flank
Thinking Tehran is the ending
Missing the crescents above
Pre-Chorus
Steel birds for sale
Lies for a seat
The ghost of an empire waking up
Waking up right now
Chorus
Watch the lines being redrawn
Old empires coming home
A dragon in the suit of a friend
The shift
The slide
The storm
Turkey rising where the sun used to set
Watch the lines being redrawn
Watch them break
Verse 2
Donors pulling every golden wire
Keep the wheels turning
Buying a peace that won't hold
Desert heat eats the iron
Bases turned to targets
Iran is a fortress made of stone
Under the northern peak
The strategy is a circle
Drowning in the deep lobby water
Pre-Chorus
Steel birds for sale
Lies for a seat
The ghost of an empire waking up
Waking up right now
Chorus
Watch the lines being redrawn
Old empires coming home
A dragon in the suit of a friend
The shift
The slide
The storm
Turkey rising where the sun used to set
Watch the lines being redrawn
Watch them break
Bridge
Pull the troops
Clear the sand
Close the gates
Bring them back
Cut the ties
Cut the cord
A house on a fault line
Waiting for the ground to give
Chorus
Watch the lines being redrawn
Old empires coming home
A dragon in the suit of a friend
The shift
The slide
The storm
Turkey rising where the sun used to set
Watch the lines being redrawn
Watch them break
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