Mercy in the Machinery

[Verse 1]
Smoke stacks rising grey
The wheels are turning in the dark
Coins on the heavy wooden table
One man watching every little spark

[Pre-Chorus]
Profits falling into silence
I see their faces through the haze
Paper shifting in the lamplight
Now counting down the nights and days

[Chorus]
Oskar Schindler saved the souls
Oskar Schindler gave them names
Breaking the cycle of the hatred
Feeding the small and hungry flames
Every life a single world
Stored inside these factory walls
Mercy living in the machinery
Whenever the heavy hammer falls

[Verse 2]
Lists typed with shaking hands
Bold ink on the thin white pages
The noise of metal blocks the terror
Shelter found between the iron cages

[Pre-Chorus]
Risking it all on a signature
A moral compass finding north
Tension breaks into the water
While we are leading them all forth

[Chorus]
Oskar Schindler saved the souls
Oskar Schindler gave them names
Breaking the cycle of the hatred
Feeding the small and hungry flames
Every life a single world
Stored inside these factory walls
Mercy living in the machinery
Whenever the heavy hammer falls

[Bridge]
What I earned
What I lost
What I learned
At such a cost
History remembers how the light broke through
History remembers everything you had to do

[Chorus]
Oskar Schindler saved the souls
Oskar Schindler gave them names
Breaking the cycle of the hatred
Feeding the small and hungry flames
Every life a single world
Stored inside these factory walls
Mercy living in the machinery
Whenever the heavy hammer falls

[Post-Chorus]
Oh we remember
Oh the light survives
Mm the list of lives