The Persistence Of Vermin

Deep within the sewers in rivers of toxic waste

Relegated to the darkness, we wait and wait and wait

You've treated us like vermin, so vermin we've become

Mutating in the blackness, kept hidden from the sun

Look what you've created, vectors of viruses and plagues

We've been watching from the shadows, tracking every move you've made

So all you fascist thought-police and you banking overlords

We're gonna to overrun the streets with our pestilential hordes

You cannot hope to save yourself this time

We are the insects writhing just beneath the system's skin

No matter what it takes, we'll work our way inside

We'll drag you down with the persistence of vermin

Corporate cops in jackboots keep bashing in our brains

While central intelligence tries to give us crack and AIDS

But crush us all you want; for like rats, roaches, and flies

We'll be replaced by thousands for each and every one of us that dies

You cannot hope to save yourself this time

We are the insects writhing just beneath the system's skin

No matter what it takes, we'll work our way inside

We'll drag you down with the persistence of vermin

There's strength in numbers

There's strength in numbers

There's strength in numbers

And nothing can stop us

There's strength in numbers

There's strength in numbers

There's strength in numbers

And nothing can stop us now

There's strength in numbers

There's strength in numbers

There's strength in numbers

And nothing can stop us

You cannot hope to save yourself this time

We are the insects writhing just beneath the system's skin

No matter what it takes, we'll work our way inside

We'll drag you down with the persistence of vermin

We are the rat

We are the insect

We are the cockroach

We are a plague of flies