Ballad of the Glowing One

[Verse 1]
Out past the rusted harbor
Where the old bombs kissed the shore
They say the ground still shivers
Like it’s prayin’ for one blast more
In that cracked glass valley
Where the dead don’t stay quite gone
Something walks in broken daylight
They just call it
The Glowing One

[Chorus]
In the legend of the Glowing Sea
Where the world got burned and stayed unfree
There’s a giant ghoul made of hurt and heat
Shakin’ mountains when it drags its feet
But a general rides in armor bright
Like a lighthouse cut from steel and spite
Faith and fire in the fallout sun
Singin’ “I ain’t runnin’
From the Glowing One”

[Verse 2]
Its eyes burn like starlight
Over bones that just won’t rest
Skin lit up like lanterns
In a suit that once was flesh
Every step pulls shadows
From the craters and the cracks
You can feel it in your ribcage
Like a train on dead steel tracks

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
He says, “I’ve seen war, I’ve seen the end
Lost good soldiers, lost good friends
If this is what the past has spun
Then I’ll stand my ground
Til this world’s done”
Boot on stone, visor down
One last charge at that cursed ground
Steel and thunder, ash and sun
Old ghosts watch
What a man becomes

[Chorus]