Let the Rats Inherit the Earth

Here we are, nowhere, and we’re bored, ‘cause we don’t care anymore Throw the pretense overboard, cut your ties with the old guard And I swear, it’s true, we don’t know what to do Let the hush wash over you, till you’re drowning in it (Wherever, decentered, untethered, ‘cause we don’t care anymore Too bent out to bother, we’re treading cold water We end up suspended, we meant it, we don’t know what to do We process undoneness, you witness no-oneness) Undone by the high tide of evolution Time unravels and devolves into repetition And we’re all too scared to hope, ‘cause we’ve got nothing to show It’s all purgatorial, revel in the great unknown And that’s fair, like sure, ‘cause when your dream is deferred And your pleas all go unheard, you sputter and you spin out (Deflated, unmade and frustrated, ‘cause we’ve got nothing to show We process undoneness, you witness no-oneness We end up suspended, we meant it, ‘cause when your dream is deferred You drift on like fodder, still treading cold water) And stare up at the sky till your eyes glaze over Your faith goes up in a blaze while the future burns Goddamn, let the rats inherit the earth Once you’re bottomed out, it’s on to something worse Who’s keeping score anymore? We are, we are, we are You can shout about it till your vision blurs Or till you lose the feeling God damn, let the rats inherit the earth Once you’re bottomed out, it’s on to something worse Who’s keeping score anymore? We are, we are, we are And out there when the flies and the buzzards swarm Would you say a prayer? Would you know what for? Who’s even sure anymore? We are, we are, we are You can shout about it till your vision blurs Or till you lose the feeling Undone by the high tide of evolution Unravel and devolve into repetition (Too bent out to bother, we’re treading cold water We process undoneness, you witness no-oneness We drift on like fodder, still treading cold water We end up suspended, we meant it, we’re treading)