[Intro]
Rain on the stone
Bells under the floor
A city holds its breath
Before the iron door

[Verse 1]
I walked where the streetlamps trembled thin
On blackened stones washed clean by rain
The windows of the town were blind
No candle called my name
A folded note inside my coat
A locket cold against my palm
Your photograph had lost its face
But still it kept me calm

[Verse 2]
The towers leaned like fingers raised
Against a moon of tarnished bone
The gutters sang in silver threads
Around the church alone
No priest, no lantern, no living hymn
No footsteps crossed the yard
Yet candles moved behind the glass
Like wounds that learned to guard

[Pre-Chorus]
I did not come for heaven
I did not come for fear
I came to ask the silent walls
Why you were not here

[Chorus]
Open, open, the iron door
I have no prayer left anymore
Let the bells below me roar
I bring my grief to the iron door
Open, open, and take my name
Wash my hands in holy rain
If love is ash and guilt is law
Let me enter through the iron door

[Verse 3]
My sleeve was soaked with winter mist
My breath was smoke and broken glass
I pressed your last unfinished line
Between my heart and past
The handle burned with buried cold
As if it knew my sin
The hinges groaned like ancient throats
And dragged the darkness in

[Pre-Chorus]
I heard a choir without a mouth
A whisper under stone
It sounded almost like your voice
But older than your bones

[Chorus]
Open, open, the iron door
I have no prayer left anymore
Let the bells below me roar
I bring my grief to the iron door
Open, open, and take my name
Wash my hands in holy rain
If love is ash and guilt is law
Let me enter through the iron door

[Guitar Solo]
The rain became a river
The river became a bell
The threshold breathed beneath me
Like the opening of hell

[Bridge]
Then every lock remembered
Every word I never said
Not death that stood before me
But the life I left unread
The door did not forgive me
The door did not condemn
It only opened slowly
And I stepped inside of them

[Breakdown]
No thunder in the tower
No mercy in the frame
Only iron, only water
Only silence speaking flame

[Final Chorus]
Open, open, the iron door
I have no prayer left anymore
Let the bells below me roar
I bring my grief to the iron door
Open, open, and take my name
Wash my hands in holy rain
If love is ash and guilt is law
I will enter through the iron door
Open, open, the iron door
Close the world I knew before

[Outro]
Rain on the stone
Bells under the floor
Your picture in my hand
And behind me
The iron door