The Glow

Sent to the crater by the brothers in steel
Where only a few walked away
Lost knowledge to retrieve before I can leave
The night closes in on the day
I make my descent into the smoldering pit
The lift shudders under my weight
Fighting my way through the dark corridors
Attacked in the black by an automated threat
This I know 'cause no life can stay
Fleeing for safety to the left, not the right
Unknowingly losing my way
An hour has passed since I first lost my path
Envision how my family will grieve
One of these rooms will become my tomb
If I’m not destined to leave
Abandoned my mission to find
The contents of a dead man’s mind
Lost in a place where no one should go
I have run out of time in the glow
Shots in the dark ring out in the halls
Blindly firing at the shadow on the wall
Machines built to last from long in the past
Outmatch me at every turn
Back to the wall, there’s no sound at all
I’ve evaded the automatons
Sick from the rads, my cells all turn bad
The countdown to death has begun
Abandoned my mission to find
The contents of a dead man’s mind
Lost in a place where no one should go
I have run out of time in the glow
Coming here was suicide, a fact I’ve learned too late
And now I must sit with my fate
There’s no escaping Death himself, he wields my final hour’s length
So I’ll pull the trigger while I have the strength
Abandoned my mission to find
The contents of a dead man’s mind
Lost in a place where no one should go
I have run out of time in the glow
Abandon my mission to find (Abandoned my mission)
The contents of a dead man’s mind (And now there’s time left only to die)
Lost in this place forevermore
I have run out of time in the glow