Destiny Repeats Itself

I've got a mission

I've got a heart condition

Still I'm gonna spread it

I don't need an excuse

Why should I bother?

I wanna be a father

I want all the credit

I will reproduce

Each little facet

I'm gonna up and pass it

Down to my descendants

To pass each on in turn

And what it does, I

Don't really care, because I

Won't be in attendance

It's not my concern

Hating the fates for the things that we're not

The closing of the gates pulls the strings of our destiny taut

With the traits that it brings to our plot

Genealogy waits in the wings while our bodies rot

Tiny financial

Burdens become substantial

Too many to list 'em

Each one worse than before

That's where they're headed

Station has been embedded

All part of the system

That I will ignore

My limitations

Over the generations

Keep everyone there in

Their inherited place

Fertile and failing

All of my children trailing

Out into the barren

Future they must face

Nothing we've had in this blown little universe

Helped us to add to our own, so we shout and we curse

Acting bad to the bone till we're in the hearse

Leaving us sad and alone and it just gets worse

I'm gonna send my spawn, fulfilling my only goal

Spiraling on and on, forever out of control

I'll never know who's who, or what becomes of their lives

I don't care what they do, and I don't care who survives

Watching the world go by with every door slamming shut

No matter what they try, their status stays in a rut

Till they run out of space, no way to win any round

Running the human race, they'll run it into the ground