Keepers of the Deep

Verse 1

Under granite ceilings where the torchlight sways

I carved my name in tunnels older than the days

My hammer finds the rhythm in the mineral dark

Each strike a question asked of ancient stone's remark

Pre-Chorus

Deep below the echoes of the world above

Down where every secret wears a miner's glove

Chorus

We are the keepers of the deep

Gold and grief we both may reap

Forge and fire till the last one sleeps

We are the keepers of the deep

Verse 2

My grandfather swore the mountain had a heart

A pulse beneath the anvil's patient art

He traded years for ore and left me just his creed

The worth is in the working not the prize indeed

Pre-Chorus

Every crack a gospel every vein a psalm

We sing the mountain's requiem in iron and calm

Chorus

We are the keepers of the deep

Gold and grief we both may reap

Forge and fire till the last one sleeps

We are the keepers of the deep

Bridge

Hallowed halls of hollowed rock

Time is measured by the clock

Of falling water grinding bone

We are small but not alone

Chorus

We are the keepers of the deep

Gold and grief we both may reap

Forge and fire till the last one sleeps

We are the keepers of the deep