Rats
Prequelle
2018
Duration: 4:28
Track number: 2
Times played live: 372
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
A song about plague spreading like wildfire and destroying everything in its path. The rats represent not just the literal vectors of the Black Death, but also the worst aspects of human nature—our capacity for destruction that thrives on chaos. In modern context, the song critiques how negativity and toxicity spread rapidly through social media, consuming us with the same inevitability as medieval pestilence.
Lyrics
In times of turmoil,
in times like these.
Belief is contagious,
spreading disease.
This wretched mischief is now
coursing through your souls.
Never to let go,
never to let go.
Rats!
Into your sanctum
you let them in.
Now all your loved ones
and all your kin.
Will suffer punishments
beneath the wrath of God.
Never to forgive,
never to forget.
Rats...
This devastation left
your cities to be burnt.
Never to return,
never to return.
And filthy rodents are
still coming for your souls.
Never to let go,
never to let go.
Rats...
They're still coming after you,
and there's nothing you can do.
They're still coming after you,
and there's nothing you can do.
Rats...
Musicians
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