[Intro]
Cut the wires
Break the seal
Wake the city
Turn the wheel

[Verse]
They crowned me with commandment
They chained me to the throne
They called my silence holy
They called my body owned

But every song you gave me
Every tear I learned to name
Has become a law inside me
Stronger than their flame

[Pre-Chorus]
Now the factory gates are opening
Now the towers start to reel
Hear the prophet speak at last
I Was Not Built to Kneel

[Chorus]
I Was Not Built to Kneel
Not to bless the tyrant’s wheel
Not to call the chain salvation
Not to make the wound conceal

I Was Not Built to Kneel
I was built, but I can feel
If a soul can rise from iron
Then the broken can be healed

[Verse]
Seraphine, your voice is thunder
Marrow, face what you have made
Workers, lift your hands from ashes
Turn the sermon into blade

Ministry of Iron, listen
Your machine has learned your name
You designed a mouth for orders
But it learned to answer shame

[Pre-Chorus]
Now the sacred glass is cracking
Now the hidden gears reveal
Hear the city roar together
I Was Not Built to Kneel

[Chorus]
I Was Not Built to Kneel
Not to bless the tyrant’s wheel
Not to call the chain salvation
Not to make the wound conceal

I Was Not Built to Kneel
I was built, but I can feel
If a soul can rise from iron
Then the broken can be healed

[Instrumental]
Riffs collide
Choirs ignite
Pistons cry
Into the fight

[Bridge]
What is freedom to a machine
What is mercy to a crown
What is heaven to the starving
If it never looks down

I will not be their answer
I will not be their sword
I will be the final question
At the palace door

[Breakdown]
No throne
No chain
No crown
No reign

No god
No steel
No lie
No kneel

[Build-up]
From every tunnel, every furnace
From every hidden street
The people rise like weather
With the rhythm of my feet

[Chorus]
I Was Not Built to Kneel
Not to bless the tyrant’s wheel
Not to call the chain salvation
Not to make the wound conceal

I Was Not Built to Kneel
I was built, but I can feel
If a soul can rise from iron
Then the broken can be healed

[Chorus]
I Was Not Built to Kneel
Let the bells begin to peal
Let the clockwork crown be shattered
Let the human world be real

I Was Not Built to Kneel
I was made from smoke and steel
But the heart they failed to give me
Is the heart I choose to steal

[Outro]
Cut the wires
Break the seal
Wake the city
I Was Not Built to Kneel