Iron Bone

Intro

Oh oh

Mmm

Yeah yeah

Maori Style

Verse 1

Dust kicks up on the North Road Bandits trail

We heavy-handed with the rusted pail

My brothers line the ridge like iron wood

Staking a claim where the ancestors stood

Sharp rocks cut into our Skin

We finding life in the salt and heat

Searching the cracks for the treasures of the deep

Pulling the kai from a coastal hell

Pre-Chorus

Muscles ache beneath the heavy spray

Scanning shadows in the churning bay

Found clusters in the urchin bed

Keep the brothers and the family fed

Chorus

Salt in the lungs and iron in the bone

King of the surf on a jagged throne

Scaling the cliffs and the freezing deep

Treasures from the ocean that we gotta keep

Iron in the bone

Yeah we hold the throne

Verse 2

Crayfish red in the kelp-lined dark

Watch for the dorsal of the ghosting shark

Snapper striking on a nylon string

Hear the yellow tail kingfish sing

Spear in the hand as the pulses race

Staring the killer in its vacant face

Kahawai run while the mullet hide

Netting the wealth of the surging tide

Pre-Chorus

Mussels cling to the weeping stone

Scallop gold that we call our own

Out past the breakers where the gales begin

Chasing the ghosts of the yellow fin

Chorus

Salt in the lungs and iron in the bone

King of the surf on a jagged throne

Scaling the cliffs and the freezing deep

Treasures from the ocean that we gotta keep

Iron in the bone

Yeah we hold the throne

Bridge

Open storm and the burning light

Swordfish blade in the dead of night

Blue fin racing the hollow crest

Hāpūka rise from the dark abyss

Blue nose swimming where the sun won't reach

Bringing the bounty to the shingle beach

Tax man circling the silver vein

Feeding the brothers through the stinging rain

Chorus

Salt in the lungs and iron in the bone

King of the surf on a jagged throne

Scaling the cliffs and the freezing deep

Treasures from the ocean that we gotta keep

Iron in the bone

Yeah we hold the throne