So there's this Castle of Rats
I mean a million of them, butchering each other
As they try to get a window open
Burying the new dead beneath the old dead
Squeezing through any crack in the wall bigger than their own head
And this Castle of Rats, it's worse than all that
There isn't anything in this world could make you go back
There isn't any meaning in the metaphor
I'm weaving a series of words that hurt me more
The more that I repeat 'em
And it's one, two, three, deep breath and hold it
Three, two, one and let it go
I keep crawling onwards even though there's no road
Cut your knees to shit don't scream just hold it, whoa
♪
Na, na-na, na-na-na
Na, na-na, na-na-na
Na, na-na, na-na-na-na-na
They say that history repeats itself in cycles
Well, I could walk you through the next ten years with my eyes closed
Empires rising to scrape the sky
Then wondering why when the sky falls
It leaves a crater a mile wide
Shit, fuck, goddamnit, I'm tongue-tied
Struck dumb by the notion of another nation in decline
No dough for the gas so
Go straight to the back of the bread line
Keep going to work, keep paying your rent
Please, keep buying your TVs
On a three-year lease
Keep voting for people that don't give a fuck
If you freeze to death in the streets
Keep feeding your species, to the high priests of the beast and pray
That you're big enough in your life to maybe afford a coffin one day
Oh, you'll be a willing slave, to the global lobotomy
God save the economy, and whoa!
Sorry, what's that?
Oh, a notification from the state sanctioned anxiety app
Okay
Apparently, people who suffer from panic attacks resembling mine
Are seven to nine times more likely of committing a crime along the lines of going on strike
Being a nuisance, distracting the workforce
Radical discourse in a public space
Holding the people to blame for the state of this place
Accountable for the decisions they make
And if all else fails
If there's no other recourse taking the resources we desperately need
From the people that hoard them by force
And so I have been prescribed a guided meditation
To be completed three times a day or receive a formal citation
One, two, three, deep breath and hold it
Three, two, one and let it go
Keep crawling onwards even though there's no road
Cut your knees to shit, don't scream, just hold it
One, two, three, deep breath and hold it
Three, two, one, and let it go
Keep crawling onwards even though there's no road
Cut your knees to shit, don't scream, just hold it
Oh, na, na-na, na-na-na
Na, na-na, na-na-na
Na, na-na, na-na-na
Na, na-na, na-na-na-na
I said, oh, oh
Oh, ma na-na-na
♪
(Yeah, something like that, I don't know)