[Intro]
Chest light buzzin', arc core glow — yeah
Repulsors whisper, city low — uh
Steel skin, heavy grin, heartbeat sync to code
This is the man with the metal soul
[Verse 1] (16 bars, steady cadence ~92 BPM)
Chest light buzzin', arc core glow, billion-dollar brain, I steal the show
Repulsors humming under palms, city on my back, I never fold, I never slow
Suit weight on my shoulders, every night another ledger in my mind
Saved a block, lost a night, traded birthdays for a frontline grind
HUD flicker, target locked, children screaming, engines scorch
Built a halo from the fallout, minted courage from the torch
Public claps, press flash, they point and chant my name
But in the quiet of the hanger, the cost is never framed the same
Wires in my ribs, scars on my script, I replay the scene in code
Billion volts of conscience, sometimes it shorts and overloads
I make the law a backbeat, fly past broken treaties, bend the rules
Million-dollar suits, low blows, I buy silence from the fools
My mind's a workshop, guilt's the product, sharpened to a blade
I keep the city breathing while my human parts degrade
Arc reactor humming like a heart that's learned to roar
I built a castle out of steel but it's hollow at the core
[Pre-Chorus] (build — ad-libs & tension)
Suit weight — feel the pull (uh)
Heartbeat — in the hull (yeah)
Pressure builds — I take the call
Then I rise — then I fall
[Chorus] (tight, rhythmic hook / short lines for ad-libs)
Arc on — I rise (yeah)
Steel wings — sky high (uh)
Heart burns — light the night (light it)
Iron Man — ignite (ignite)
[Verse 2] (16 bars — flow switch, double-time in latter half)
They cheer when I breach the skyline, parade lights on my jet wake
But no one sees the mornings that I spend counting every mistake
Repulsor scorch marks on the stone where I left a promise tight
Missed calls stacked like unpaid bills on a table lit by flight
Sponsor wraps, cameo snaps, I'm candid on the cover, staged
But at home the photos faded, conversations disengaged
Stark tech, arc-core specs, I engineer salvation's frame
But the ledger's full of interest: love deferred, the private flame
Enemies take positions, but the hardest fights are in my head
The suit hums lullabies to ghosts — allies gone, the jury's led
Double-time — pedal down, repulse, combust, I split the beat
Half the city thinks I'm miracle, the other half knows defeat
Wrench in the chest, oil and stress, I fix the world then walk away
Paid in headlines, owe my nights, owe my friends more than I say
Flow switch, spit quick — sorrow's slick, iron's thick, I still move right
Armor's bright in searchlight, but it's lonely after every fight
[Bridge] (vulnerability — reveal consequence)
Tell me where the man begins when the mask gets turned off
Who I am without the glow, without the hum, without the cough
I wake to sirens made by my own design, apologies unsent
Saved a skyline, lost a son; kept my freedom, lost the tent
If the chest goes quiet, will the world crack like glass? (Yeah)
If I power down tomorrow, wh
