[Verse 1]
We dropped in hard on the rust-red sand
Three raiders deep with a crooked plan
Mask full of dust
Hands slick with fear
Matriarch watching from the rear
Knees in the sludge where the old world sank
Boots kicking up that glowing stank
Every step sticks
Every breath burns black
You said
"Tag the stash
Then we never look back"
[Chorus]
In the goop and the glory
We crawl then we climb
Bastion walls shaking as we bleed through time
Got an extract ticket and a curse on my back
If the matriarch calls
We’re never turning back
In the goop and the glory
Where the lost get named
Raiders in the dark
Setting wreckage aflame
[Verse 2]
Bastion gates like a broken jaw
Steel teeth bent from the last big war
Sirens cough
Then the spotlights swing
You laughed
"I was born for this kind of sting" (hey!)
Data cores humming in a cracked glass crate
You whispered codes like a crooked prayer to fate
I held my breath when the floorboards moaned
One wrong step and we both go blown
[Chorus]
In the goop and the glory
We crawl then we climb
Bastion walls shaking as we bleed through time
Got an extract ticket and a curse on my back
If the matriarch calls
We’re never turning back
In the goop and the glory
Where the lost get named
Raiders in the dark
Setting wreckage aflame
[Bridge]
[Drums drop to toms
Distant sirens rising]
Matriarch eyes on the grime-stained glass
Counting every heartbeat
Every trespass
"One more score
" you said
"then we’re clear"
But the goop grabbed tight and kept you here (oh)
[Chorus]
In the goop and the glory
We crawl then we climb
Bastion walls shaking as we bleed through time
Got an extract ticket and your name on my back
If the matriarch calls
I’m never coming back
In the goop and the glory
Where the lost get named
Raiders carve stories in the rust and the flame