[Verse 1]
He crawls from the trench at dawn
Barnacles
Rust
And stone
Skyscrapers shake
Glass rains down
He’s just searching for geodes
Alone
Jaw like a fault line cracking
Eyes like volcanic glass
Tail smashes cars by accident
He just wants agate in the grass (yeah)
[Chorus]
Terror turtle
King of the rubble
Smashing cities just to dig in the dirt
Terror turtle
Born for the trouble
Cracks the world open
Looking for a perfect shard of earth
(rockhound heart in a mountain of hurt)
[Verse 2]
He sifts through collapsed museums
Claws full of fossil dust
Hums to himself in thunder
Back lit in nuclear dusk
Pocket of quartz in his armor
Shimmer on shattered shell
He hoards each shard like a secret
In the crater where he fell (hey)
[Bridge]
[Breakdown riff
Halftime stomp]
Let the sirens sing
He’s sorting through the stones
Helicopters circle
He just wants a crystal home
Catalog of chaos
Meteorites and ore
Every crater
Every canyon
He just needs one piece more (one more!)
[Chorus]
Terror turtle
King of the rubble
Smashing cities just to dig in the dirt
Terror turtle
Born for the trouble
Cracks the world open
Looking for a perfect shard of earth
Terror turtle
Slow and colossal
Neck high over the smoke and steel
Terror turtle
Gentle and awful
Rockhound guardian the world calls “monster” but he’s real
(rockhound heart that the bedrock feels)