Steel In The Cornfields

[Verse 1]
Dust on the turnpike, smoke on the hill
Commonwealth sunrise burning red and still
Gunners on the overpass, rifles in a row
Thought they owned this broken road

Rust-bit fences, empty barns
You can smell the powder, feel the harm
Then I hear that engine, deep and mean
Steel rolling through a dead man’s dream

[Chorus]
Here come the Minutemen, hear that thunder roll
Heavy treads cutting tracks through a shattered world
Steel boots down, stars on their painted chests
Power fists swinging like a judge laying souls to rest
Here come the Minutemen, dust and glory fly
For every farmhouse flame, they raise our banner high

[Verse 2]
APC growls like a caged old bull
Front plate scarred, but the heart still full
Mercs line up in their ragged gear
Shouting brave words they don’t really hear

First one hits, like a plow through clay
Bodies and bravado thrown away
Out the hatch, giants in iron skin
You can feel the ground shiver when they wade on in

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
I was just a farmhand, hiding in the grain
Counting out the bottle caps, living with the pain
Then I saw those helmets shining in the smoke
Thought, “Maybe this land ain’t finished, ain’t broke”

[crescendo]
Now I stand my line with a rusted rifle stock
Watching living mountains walk the broken rock
Every swing, every step kicks up hope from the dust
In steel and grit, we trust

[Chorus]