[Verse 1]
Wake up in the wreckage
Smoke in my lungs
Visor stained red
Seven rounds in the rifle
One last prayer for the nearly dead
Drop pod scars in the dirt
Blue fire bleeding from the sky
Spartans fall in my periphery
But I’m still standing
Asking why
[Chorus]
This is my ring of fireteams
Glass the sky or break the seams
If I fall
Then let it be
On the edge of Halo’s history
When the flood comes
Let it roar
I was born to face this war
Leave my armor in the stone
I’ll be legend
I’ll be known
[Verse 2]
Echoes in the Forerunner halls
Ancient script crawling through steel
Grav lifts drag me to judgment
Where prophets twist the truth I feel
Ghosts scream over comms
Noble names burned into clay
Every mission scars the metal
Every scar carves a better way
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] Helmet cracked
See the stars
Every scar map where we are
I am one
I am many
Every Spartan
Every scar
[harsh vocals] Flood in my veins
Covenant aim
Still I run into the flame
If this ring tears itself apart
It takes my body
Not my heart
[Chorus]