The Mandrake Project

Eternity Has Failed

Best Time

Best Time (Live)

Welcome to Christmas Hell

For Aleksandra... Our Iron Heart. 

Lyrics✨

They laughed at her in boot camp, said tanks were men’s terrain
But she lit her cigarette and drove straight through their disdain.
No fear in oil-slick fingers, no flinch at engine flame

She was the war machine they feared, with lipstick on her name

Steel doesn’t shake when it’s forged in fire, and her heart was cast in flame
She spoke in gears and powder smoke, and never bowed to shame

Aleksandra, ride that thunder, roll through every line they drew
You were twenty with a cannon and a death glare that cut through
You made the earth remember what a girl’s wrath truly means
In your wake: burnt tracks, wrecked myths and shattered war machines

Her T-34 roared louder than the men who told her no
She drove it like a phantom, through frost and blood and snow
She loaded shells with shaking hands, but her stare was cold and clear
“You think I fight to prove myself? No. I fight 'cause I’m still here.”

She kissed the cross upon her wrist,
then steered through smoke and screams
A girl alone, in steel and bone, rewriting history's dreams

Aleksandra, queen of armor, you turned engines into prayers
Each shell a song of reckoning, each mile a soul laid bare
Your name was whispered in the dark by those who couldn't flee
“You hear that hum?  She’s coming now
The girl who never leaves"

Она не дрожала. Она стреляла
She did not tremble. She fired.
Это была её земля. Её кровь
This was her land. Her blood
Александра… железное сердце
Aleksandra… iron heart

The tank was her body
The war was her breath
She never asked permission, she answered them with death

Aleksandra, mother of fury, your fire burns us still
A legend carved in bullet scars, a name they couldn't kill
Roll on through the silence, through every bitter lie 
A girl in steel with nothing left…
but the will to never die
She rides still
In dream
In dusk
In dread
She rides… still

Eternity Has Failed

Bruce Dickinson

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