The Hungry Never Die

Lyrics

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
I am the maze with no kind path,
copper teeth in the necrogen grass.
I do not build, I do not pray,
I let the weak ones rot away.
Your forest fed you soft and slow —
now watch what hungrier creatures grow.

[Pre-Chorus]
Every root that you would drink,
I drank it first, down to the brink.
There is no harvest left to keep —
[Chorus]
When you reach for the land, I take twice what it gives,
I gorge while you starve, that is how a hunter lives.
Your wells run to nothing, your roots come up dry —
I am the voice of hunger, and the hungry never die.

[Verse 2]
I woke as bone with the flesh stripped clean,
on a frozen world I had never seen.
I hunted its strongest, I wore their hide,
I stitched a new body from everything that died.
Your spells and your labs, your sterile design —
mock perfection. Real teeth are mine.

[Pre-Chorus]
You till and you tend and you wait for the rain,
I am already moving across your terrain.
There is no harvest left to keep —

[Chorus]
When you reach for the land, I take twice what it gives,
I gorge while you starve, that is how a hunter lives.
Your wells run to nothing, your roots come up dry —
I am the voice of hunger, and the hungry never die.

[Bridge]
There are only two kinds of living thing:
the one that eats, and the one being eaten.
I never hated you. I never could.
You are not my enemy — you are food.
So run if it helps. Run while you can.
The maze was always closing on the plan.

[Bridge build]
Faster — evolve or be devoured —
the swarm is at the wall and it has tasted the hour.

[Final Chorus]
When you reach for the land, I take twice what it gives,
I gorge while you starve, that is how a hunter lives.
Your wells run to nothing, your roots come up dry —
I am the voice of hunger, and the hungry never die.
I trample the garden, I drink the world thin —
let the strongest thing standing decide what gets in.

[Outro]
Predator. Prey.
That is all there ever was.