The Bats (Are Hungry Tonight)

I graduated honored letters

The very doctorate of pride

Then I attacked the world unfettered

With a steamer full of books and a box full of knives

As above so below

You boast of what you know

But everywhere are wonders and signs

The bats are hungry tonight

As the species grew in number

Suspended in formaldehyde

They came to haunt me in my slumber

A head full of terror and a jar full of eyes

As above so below

You boast of what you know

But everywhere are wonders and signs

As within so without

Have you faith or have you doubt?

All proceeds by noble design

The bats are hungry tonight

Now I look to my chthonic kingdom

My eerie phylum and my class

And I have nothing left to bring them

But a steamer full of books

And a box full of ash

As above so below

You boast of what you know

But everywhere are wonders and signs

As within so without

Have you faith or have you doubt?

All proceeds by noble design

The bats are hungry tonight