Nazario Ai — Tear down the cross

Ai metal [Verse 1] Raised on fear and borrowed chains Blindfold prayers Inherited shame They sold us heaven Taxed our pain Branded our blood with a foreign name I lit a match in the chapel door Watched their paper saints burn on the floor Your desert ghosts don't own this shore You wrote in dust But we are stone [Chorus] Tear down the cross from the oak tree Give me the thunder The soil The sea I won't kneel to a stranger's king My war is older than your holy ring This is my land Not your story Roots in the bone Not your glory I break your book I break your spell I walk with gods you tried to kill (hey!) [Verse 2] You called our grandmothers witches Whores Drowned their names in your bloody wars But they still sing in the forest floor Every leaf a locked Forgotten door Your heaven hangs on a rusty nail Built on our dead On a borrowed tale You sold us guilt so we'd stay frail We sharpened it Turned it into hail [Chorus] Tear down the cross from the oak tree Give me the thunder The soil The sea I won't kneel to a stranger's king My war is older than your holy ring This is my land Not your story Roots in the bone Not your glory I break your book I break your spell I walk with gods you tried to kill (oh!) [Bridge] [Soft Distant vocal] Whisper of wolves in the winter field Names in the stones that you tried to shield We rise We rise From the ash you sealed Your borrowed crown begins to yield [Screamed] Take back the hill Take back the sky Take back the dead you taught to lie No more chains in a foreign tongue We are the old and we are young [Chorus] Tear down the cross from the oak tree Give me the thunder The soil The sea I won't kneel to a stranger's king My war is older than your holy ring This is my land Not your story Roots in the bone Not your glory I break your book I break your spell I walk with gods you failed to kill