[Intro]
From the ports to the plains
From the ice to the wire
Every stolen border
Throws wood on the fire

[Verse]
The footage hit morning like a brick through glass
Every capital street heard the sirens pass
Students with banners, workers with drums
Old women singing where the riot line comes

No single leader, no holy brand
Just tired people with dust on their hands
She sees her own words on a wall in paint
No empire is sacred, no tyrant is saint

[Pre-Chorus]
They built their towers out of fear
They fed their engines year by year
But when the people start to learn
There are no empires left to burn

[Chorus]
No Empires Left to Burn
No crowns left to defend
No Empires Left to Burn
No more worlds for you to bend
No Empires Left to Burn
Every border hears the sound
The age of hungry giants
Is coming crashing down

[Verse]
A harbor in the north sends a chorus south
A desert town repeats it by word of mouth
A border camp answers with a broken drum
A factory line shouts what the rich run from

The markets go nervous, the ministers sweat
The old men ask what the people want next
She says not revenge, not a throne in return
Just no more empires left to burn

[Pre-Chorus]
They built their towers out of fear
They fed their engines year by year
But when the people start to learn
There are no empires left to burn

[Chorus]
No Empires Left to Burn
No crowns left to defend
No Empires Left to Burn
No more worlds for you to bend
No Empires Left to Burn
Every border hears the sound
The age of hungry giants
Is coming crashing down

[Instrumental]
Guitars ignite like streetlight wire
Bassline runs through smoke and fire
Drums like crowds against the door
Gang voices roar, then roar once more

[Bridge]
You can’t eat the whole sky
You can’t own the rain
You can’t turn a country
Into your private chain
You can’t make the future
Bow down to your name
Every empire’s ending
Starts sounding the same

[Breakdown]
No throne
No claim
No map
No chain
No god
No turn
No empires left to burn

[Build-up]
She looks at the square
At the banners torn
Not a clean new world
But a loud one born

[Chorus]
No Empires Left to Burn
No crowns left to defend
No Empires Left to Burn
No more worlds for you to bend
No Empires Left to Burn
Every border hears the sound
The age of hungry giants
Is coming crashing down

[Chorus]
No Empires Left to Burn
No masters left to praise
No Empires Left to Burn
No more golden violent days
No Empires Left to Burn
Let the people have the earth
No nation is your property
No life is less in worth

[Outro]
From the ports to the plains
From the ice to the wire
There are no empires left
No empires left to burn