Necessary Evil

Lyrics

[VERSE 1]
No fangs in the city, no claws in the concrete
Paved over the jungle, put the beast on a leash
But the herd keeps swelling and the meadow turns brown
Nature hates a vacuum when the top needs cut down
So the pressure builds up and the shadow gets long
Evolution finds a crack where the masons went wrong
Not a hero, not a villain, just a function in flesh
A biological mandate in human dress
He walks among the cattle with the warranty void
The sheep forgot the sermon that the wolf once enjoyed
[HOOK]
(Heavy groove breakdown, shouted/screamed hook, bass drop)
Concrete's cracked, the fangs are out, the city's torn
A new kind of hunger, brutally reborn
He's the ghost in the machine, the glitch in the code
The price of your progress, a debt long owed
[VERSE 2]
Not a motive, just a method, not a madness, just math
Subtract the random integer from the civilized path
He don’t want your money and he don’t want your fame
He’s the famine in the system, he’s a different kind of lame
Trophy in the freezer, pattern in the sprawl
You build a higher fence and he just studies your wall
Your cameras and your curfews are a joke to the night
He’s the proof that your progress never killed the fight
[VERSE 3]
You worship at the altar of the cold case file
Consuming the trauma with a click and a smile
True crime podcasts and the documentary glow
You need the boogeyman to remind you what you know
That the line is thin and the mask is cheap
You lock your doors at night but you still want to peek
He’s the shadow you pay for, the shadow you need
A population bleeding out its overfeed
[BRIDGE]
(Atmospheric, half-time, clean guitar, eerie, spoken)
In every ecosystem, something has to cull the lame
In every silent forest, something has to know the name
Of the sick and the weak and the excess and the rot
Somebody has to pull the plug when you forgot…
[VERSE 4]
You got no plague and you got no war
No lion at the door anymore
Eight billion mouths and a dwindling spark
You needed something predatory in the dark
He’s the antibody in the blooded vein
The reason that your neurons still remember pain
Not forgiven, not forgotten, just a fact in the skin
A species needs a end to know where to begin
You can call it sick, you can call it sin
But you built the cage and he stept in
[Instrumental Break]
[VERSE 5]
Twenty-first century and the jungle moved inside
Wearing human faces as a perfect disguise
No more saber-tooth, no more grizzly jaw
Just the quiet in the apartment behind the wall
He ain’t the exception, he’s the rule suppressed
The debt that you owe to the wilderness
Your hands are clean but your guilt is loud
He’s the wolf that you prayed to when you still were allowed
[FINALE]
(Aggressive thrash finale, stomping breakdown, shouted vocals, all instruments in)
Culling is a kindness that the cosmos understands!
You sterilized the soil but the death still demands!
A predator, a shepherd, or a plague on the grid!
Something has to thin the numbers that you hid
He is the consequence, he is the cost
The shadow of the paradise that you thought you lost
Not beautiful, not righteous, just a tooth in the wheel
The necessary evil that the broken reveal
The concrete's cracked, the fangs are out, the city's torn
A new kind of hunger, brutally reborn
He's the ghost in the machine, the glitch in the code
The price of your progress, a debt long owed
No fangs in the city, no claws in the concrete?
The asphalt bleeds, the circle's complete.