Rat King Lifecycle

Lyrics for Rat King Lifecycle

You're gonna begin The way you will end Among your brothers You'll grow low cunning Stretch scrabbling limbs longer Twitch your greedy whiskers Make a friend of your hunger You'll learn to aspire, eye the climb up the ladder Master the tunnels, subsisting on refuse Keep tabs on your rivals, picking off the weakest Take the old pleasures from flesh that runs slower Gonna swim deep in the sewers 'Cuz you're built for oiled waters Sometimes your coarse mind will wonder Why the spoils ain't sweeter Why you can't quell your yearning What's hollow in your nature Later you're larded, a royal weight-thrower Nestled in your cortege of suck-ups and betas Tails tangled up; common filth brings you closer Gonna go greyer, wonder why you're so tired Bound to your bootlickers while the flooding creeps higher No longer seaworthy, the knotted clan's squirming The rain is coming down, the gutters are bleeding No crown will spare your kind from what you've got coming The final instinct will be recursive gnawing Among your brothers