Lyrics
[Intro] Yeah Nineveh
Ashur
[Verse 1] Woke up in the ziggurat with blood beneath my nails
Tiglath wrote the ledger and the ledger never fails
March the troops at dawn
Chariots rolling iron wheels across the plain
Every kingdom that I break becomes a province of my name
Scribes carve the tally on the wall
Three thousand heads
I stack them tall
[Chorus] I am Ashur's hammer I am king of every road
Bow your neck to Nineveh
Bow your neck to Nineveh
Kneel and kiss the dust where the Tigris starts to flood
I am Ashur's hammer and I drink the rebel blood
[Post-Chorus] Burn it down
Burn it down
Ashur
Ashur
[Verse 2] Sennacherib was patient when he leveled Babylon
Salt into the furrow so the harvest never comes
I flay the governor alive
Hang his skin above the gate
Lion hunts beside me and the lion does not wait
Tribute trains from Elam
Gold and cedar slaves
Every rebel city learns exactly how I behave
[Chorus] I am Ashur's hammer I am king of every road
Bow your neck to Nineveh
Bow your neck to Nineveh
Kneel and kiss the dust where the Tigris starts to flood
I am Ashur's hammer and I drink the rebel blood
[Bridge] Ashurbanipal with the tablet in my hand
Ashurbanipal and I own the written land
Every oath I take
Every throat I take
Every throne I break
[Chorus] I am Ashur's hammer I am king of every road
Bow your neck to Nineveh
Bow your neck to Nineveh
Kneel and kiss the dust where the Tigris starts to flood
I am Ashur's hammer and I drink the rebel blood
[Post-Chorus] Burn it down
Burn it down
Ashur
Ashur
[Verse 3] Esarhaddon got the throne and I ain't finish yet
Egypt tried to flex so I put chains around its neck
Memphis in the rearview
Nile beneath my boot
I split my empire into three and made the princes salute
Vassals send their firstborn just to prove they gon obey
If the tribute come up short I take the heir and walk away
Priests read the liver of a sheep before I move
Every sign say conquer
Every sign approve
[Verse 4] Sargon built the capital and carved it out of stone
Dur-Sharrukin standing where the desert was alone
Deport the whole population
Scatter every clan
Break the tongue and break the bond so no one understands
I move the Medes to Syria
Move the Jews to the east
A thousand miles from home and now your loyalty increase
That's the science of the empire
That's the art of fear
You forget your father's name within a single year
[Verse 5] Siege towers rolling up against the city wall
Battering the gate until the cedar doors fall
Lachish on the relief
Frozen in the lime
The king impaled and smiling like he doing overtime
I got a lion hunt carved across the palace hall
Me with a spear and a beast ten feet tall
That ain't a metaphor
That's a photograph
A warning to the next king thinking he could get the last laugh
[Bridge] Tell me who gon stop me now
(Tell me who)
Tell me who gon stop me now
(Tell me who)
From the Zagros to the sea
Every knee gon bend to me
Tell me who gon stop me now
(Tell me who)
[Verse 6] Fall of Nineveh coming but I don't know it yet
Medes and Babylonians running up a heavy debt
Every empire that I crushed got a cousin in the cut
Waiting for the moment when the gate ain't fully shut
Nabopolassar moving and the river do the rest
Cyaxares at the border with a fury in his chest
The same fire that I lit is coming back around
You burn the world you better know the ashes get a crown
[Outro] Ashur
(Ashur)
Nineveh
(Nineveh)
The hammer falls
(The hammer falls)
And the hammer don't apologize
(Don't apologize)
The hammer don't apologize
Ashur
Nineveh
Done