Verse 1They said the world was ash and fear,That men should kneel and disappear.But through the smoke, the towers stood,Not built by prayer, but iron and wood.ChorusI am the hand, I am the flame,I sign my will in my own name.No king, no crowd, no trembling state,Can make the engine abdicate.Verse 2In Doha’s halls the whispers turn,While oil-black seas and markets burn.But peace is not a beggar’s plea,It is a contract made by free.ChorusI am the hand, I am the flame,I sign my will in my own name.No king, no crowd, no trembling state,Can make the engine abdicate.BridgeLet missiles sleep beneath the sand,Let traders lift the waking land.Let every builder claim his sky,And every coward ask him why.Verse 3The world is not a sacrifice,Not blood for blood, not vice for vice.The man who thinks, the mind that earns,Is why the wheel of history turns.Final ChorusI am the hand, I am the flame,I sign my will in my own name.No king, no crowd, no trembling state,Can make the engine abdicate.OutroSo let the diplomats confer,Let steel and reason both endure.The earth belongs to those who make—The engine moves. It does not break.