Baptized in the Glowing Sea

Lyrics transcript

Reviewed lyrics for Baptized in the Glowing Sea.

I walked into that green storm

With a rifle and a name

Had a pocket full of bottle caps

And a heart full of blame

I done some things for money

I done some things for pride

Learned not to ask too many questions

When somebody died

They said the world's cruel So I figured I'd

be cruel

Never give a stranger nothin' Never play the fool

Keep your back against the wall

Keep your finger on the gun

It's how you make it through the commonwealth It's

how you see another sun

I got baptized in the golden sea Let that

green rain fall on me Wash the anger from

my soul Burned away what I couldn't control I

got baptized in the glowing sea Ain't the same

man I used to be I went and cared

everything I knew Came back with only what was

true

Radiation burning through my clothes Strong clouds rolling low

Every step I took toward the crater Felt like

one step closer below Saw a death claw on

a ridgeline Saw a ghoul beneath the rain I

waited for my fear to speak But I couldn't

hear it over the pain I found a stranger

by the roadside Couldn't get up on his feet

Had one dose of Radex left and one good

reason to keep it Oh, me would've kept on

walking Said, ain't my fight, ain't my blood But

I gave that man my medicine and somehow understood

I got baptized in the glowing sea Let that

green rain fall on me Wash the anger from

my soul Burned away what I couldn't control I

got baptized in the glowing sea Ain't the same

man I used to be I went in carrying

everything I knew Came back with only what was

true Ain't no preaching that wasteland Ain't no choir

in the rain Ain't nobody there to tell me

I was different when I came But somewhere underneath

that green sky With the whole world burned away

I heard a voice I hadn't listened to Since

the bombs took yesterday It said You ain't gotta

stay the man That the wasteland made you

I came back through the dead roads with the

same old coat and gun Same cracked boots beneath

me, same burned out morning sun But I stopped

beside a little shack where a hungry family stayed

Left half my caps upon the doorstep and walked

away I ain't gonna tell you I'm a saint

now Hell, I still got blood on me But

I don't wake up every morning trying to prove

what I can be I learned a man ain't

measured by the things he had to do Sometimes

surviving means remembering there's still some good in you

I got baptized in the glowing sea Let that

green rain fall on me Took my anger, took

my pride Left me nowhere left to hide I

got baptized in the glowing sea Ain't the same

man I used to be I went in thinking

I knew how to live Came back knowing what

I got to give

world ended once out there didn't have to end

in me