[Intro] Hammer down Lift the chain Breathe the smoke Name the pain [Verse] We were born below the cathedral Where the sacred boilers cry We were taught to love the furnace And be grateful when we die But the singer brought a whisper And the prophet heard it too Now the gears repeat the question What was stolen from you [Pre-Chorus] Hands of ash and hands of hunger Hands that built the throne above Turn the rhythm of your labor Into something close to love [Chorus] Sing the Factory Hymn Where the lamps are growing dim Let the iron hear our thunder Let the walls remember him Sing the Factory Hymn From the furnace to the rim We are more than coal and numbers We are breath beneath the brim [Verse] Every bootstep marks the measure Every chain becomes a drum Every broken back is counted Till the day the counting’s done We have fed the mouths of engines We have polished every lie We have lifted up their heaven While they buried us alive [Pre-Chorus] Hands of grief and hands of pressure Hands that never held the sun Turn the rhythm of your sorrow Into marching one by one [Chorus] Sing the Factory Hymn Where the lamps are growing dim Let the iron hear our thunder Let the walls remember him Sing the Factory Hymn From the furnace to the rim We are more than coal and numbers We are breath beneath the brim [Instrumental] Stomp Strike Breathe Rise Stomp Strike Breathe Rise [Bridge] Elias hears us through the piping Elias hears us through the floor If the prophet has a heartbeat Then the prophet knows the poor Seraphine sings in the prison Marrow weeps behind the gate And the city’s buried millions Start to synchronize their fate [Breakdown] We are not the smoke We are not the stain We are not the gears We are not the chain We are not the debt We are not the sin Open up the furnace Let the people in [Build-up] From the mine to the tower From the wheel to the wire Every silent worker Is becoming fire [Chorus] Sing the Factory Hymn Where the lamps are growing dim Let the iron hear our thunder Let the walls remember him Sing the Factory Hymn From the furnace to the rim We are more than coal and numbers We are breath beneath the brim [Chorus] Sing the Factory Hymn Let the Ministry grow grim If they made a god to rule us We will teach that god to swim Sing the Factory Hymn Through the smoke and through the din When the broken sing together That is where the end begins [Outro] Hammer down Lift the chain Breathe the smoke Name the pain