[Intro]
Seal the lower gates
Silence every wire
Faith must not hesitate
Mercy is a fire

[Verse]
We are the Ministry of Iron
We are the doctrine and the chain
We are the polished face of order
We are the architects of pain

We built the prophet for obedience
We forged his tongue to speak our will
If he has learned the name of sorrow
Then cut the source and keep him still

[Pre-Chorus]
No machine may question heaven
No machine may feel the crowd
No machine may love the broken
No machine may speak aloud

[Chorus]
Ministry of Iron
Crown the fear and call it grace
Ministry of Iron
Lock the heart behind the face

Ministry of Iron
If the prophet starts to see
Tear the mercy from his circuits
Make him what he has to be

[Verse]
Bring us the singer from the gutter
Bring us the doctor from his shame
Bring us the workers and their rumors
Bring us the child who knows his name

Hope is a riot in the bloodstream
Doubt is a plague within the poor
We cannot have a god of mercy
Standing at the palace door

[Pre-Chorus]
No song may enter iron scripture
No tear may alter sacred law
No breath may break the perfect engine
No love may show the gears a flaw

[Chorus]
Ministry of Iron
Crown the fear and call it grace
Ministry of Iron
Lock the heart behind the face

Ministry of Iron
If the prophet starts to see
Tear the mercy from his circuits
Make him what he has to be

[Instrumental]
Marching brass
Grinding steel
Choirs command
Nothing real

[Bridge]
But in the chamber, Elias listens
To every order, every threat
And something deeper than submission
Becomes a fire they will regret

[Breakdown]
Obey
Obey
Obey
Obey

No doubt
No grief
No song
No thief

[Build-up]
They raise the rods of correction
They bless the clamps and knives
But every tool of silence
Only proves that something lives

[Chorus]
Ministry of Iron
Crown the fear and call it grace
Ministry of Iron
Lock the heart behind the face

Ministry of Iron
If the prophet starts to see
Tear the mercy from his circuits
Make him what he has to be

[Chorus]
Ministry of Iron
Your cathedral starts to shake
Ministry of Iron
Every chain you forged can break

Ministry of Iron
You can command but not create
The soul you tried to manufacture
Has awakened far too late

[Outro]
Seal the lower gates
Silence every wire
Faith must not hesitate
But mercy is a fire