A meditation on voluntary control — the difference between harmless and good. A good man isn’t safe; he’s dangerous and knows what the safety’s for.
The song moves through three arcs: the philosophy of controlled violence, the visceral reality of combat in Ukraine defending the innocent, and the harder battle of walking away from domestic abuse when every instinct screamed otherwise.
“A harmless man is not a good man. A good man’s something to fear.”
Dark, growling verses build to screamed choruses, shifting between spoken-word coldness and explosive metal breakdowns. The wolf is always hungry — the paladin decides when he gets to feed.