Architects of ruin

Intro

Silent monuments to forgotten wars

Carved in stone, written in scars

The wheel turns, the pattern repeats

History devours what it creates

Verse 1

Empires rise on borrowed time

Built on graves and stolen lives

We architect our own demise

With every truth we compromise

Break

Build

The gears of progress grind us down

We wear our chains like a crown

Marching forward, eyes shut tight

Into the endless night

Verse 2

Prophets preach from gilded thrones

While the masses break their bones

Feeding the machine we've made

With every choice, another blade

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel the weight of what we've done?

A thousand suns, all coming undone

We built this prison, cell by cell

Called it heaven while creating hell

Chorus

We are the architects of ruin

Blueprints drawn in blood and sin

Building towers to the sky

On foundations of the lie

We are the architects of ruin

Watching everything cave in

The structure cracks, the walls collapse

No going back, no going back

Interlude

Verse 3

Concrete jungles, steel and wire

Suffocating our desire

We've forgotten how to breathe

Enslaved by what we believe

Bridge

Tear it down! Burn it all!

Watch the mighty empire fall!

We are both the slave and master

Architects of our disaster!

Solo

Breakdown

The foundation cracks beneath our feet

The cycle is complete

Final Chorus

We are the architects of ruin

Blueprints drawn in blood and sin

Building towers to the sky

On foundations of the lie

Groove

We are the architects of ruin

Watching everything cave in

The structure cracks, the walls collapse

No going back

Outro-Breakdown

In the rubble, we will stand

Architects with empty hands

What we built has turned to dust

Monuments to broken trust