BLACK BLOOD
Before the towers touched the sky
before the highways learned to run
we pulled the midnight from the earth
and taught the darkness how to burn
It crossed the deserts crossed the seas
it turned the wheels and raised the steel
every city drank it down
every empire knew the deal
From the wellhead to the harbor
from the tanker to the flame—
we built a world upon a river
we were never meant to tame
Black blood—
running through the veins of the world
black blood—
under every flag unfurled
When the engines roar
when the warships turn
when a million cities burn with light—
Black blood
we made the modern world
from the darkness of the night
A narrow strait a closing sea
a single spark a rising price
and suddenly the distant war
is waiting at your door tonight
In every runway every truck
every harvest every store
there’s a shadow of the ancient sun
buried underneath the floor
We called it fuel
we called it wealth
we called it power in our hands—
until the world began to tremble
where the black river changed its plans
Black blood—
running through the veins of the world
black blood—
under every flag unfurled
When the engines roar
when the warships turn
when a million cities burn with light—
Black blood
we made the modern world
from the darkness of the night
Someday the wells may fall silent
someday the engines may change
but every century remembers
what carried it through the flame
No crown
No creed
No border could command it
We thought we owned the buried fire—
until we understood:
it owned us
Black blood—
running through the veins of the world
black blood—
the price of everything we built
Every highway
every skyline
every ship beneath the burning sun—
Black blood
beneath the world above us
the age of oil still runs
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