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 me 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

[Chorus]
And it’s 1, 2, 3, deep breath and hold it
3, 2, 1, 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 woah

Nana nanana na
Nana nanana na
Nana nanana na na na

They say that history repeats itself in cycles
Well I could walk you through the next 10 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 breadline
Keep going to work, keep paying your rent
Please, keep buying your TVs
On a 3 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 woah-

Sorry what’s that
Oh, a notification from the state sanctioned anxiety app

Okay
Apparently people who suffer from panic attacks resembling mine
Are 7 to 9 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 3 times a day or receive a formal citation

[Chorus]
1, 2, 3, deep breath and hold it
3, 2, 1, and let it go
Keep crawling onwards even though there’s no road
Cut your knees to shit don’t scream just hold it

1, 2, 3, deep breath and hold it
3, 2, 1, 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 nana nanana na na na
Nana nanana na
Nana nanana na
Nana nanana na na na
I said oh, oh
Oh ma nanana

(Yeah, something like that, I don’t know)