Metal Storm logo
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest The Rats' Nest lyrics



Tracks



01. Planet B

Open your eyes and light the fluid
Get into it, petrol siphon
Low on meals, browning fields
Bury Children

Urbanization, Scarification
Population Exodus
There is no Planet B
Open your eyes and see

Open your eyes and shoot the dingo
All this shit goes out the window
Multi-factioned, rusting tractors
Dying heroes

Only way through is colonization
Acclimatization
Population exodus
Monetization, Civilization
The operation has begun
There is no Planet B

Ancient seasons blacked out for ages
Dreaming of cake, snowflakes blanket
Old deserts, outskirts, disperse
Earth is a blank verse, last hearse, dry nurse, oh

Open your eyes and see
There is no Planet B

Sin is our greatest you hear
Baby Jesus sheds a tear

02. Mars For The Rich

Red Mars for the rich

I'm just a poor boy
Living frugally
I see Mars on TV,
I see people happy
I work fields with
Blistered fingers
I look starward
That world has no place for me

Red Mars
The czars
Live large
Red Mars for the rich, rich

Mars for the privileged
Earth for the poor
Marrs terraforming slowly
Earth has been deformed
Just forget it, you ain't coming here
The ticket's too dear
I stare sadly into my beer
That world has no place for me

Red Mars
The czars
Live large
Red Mars for the rich, rich, rich, rich

03. Organ Farmer

Make the incision, careful precision
Blood minestrone
Decomposition, new life christened
Fatty rolls of brie

Organ farmer, organ farmer

Delicatessen of our profession
Growing muscle meat
Bring in the carcass, waken departed
Speak our blasphemy

Organ farmer, organ farmer

Counterfeit hypocrite
Runs the mall, runs them all
Citadel guards it well
Counting coins, counting stem cells
Wiretap divinity, human laboratory
Kill the squid, cut the tree
Arrogant human being
Meadow's vast, body parts pulled apart
Partly smart, partly art, partly not
Part of me wants to breathe eternally
Part of me wants to cut out my heart

Farm colossal
Wake the fossil
In the fields of beef

04. Superbug

Superbug coming up
Feels like he'll never stop
Shoulda used phages, instead you took ages
Superbug gave a shrug and ate all your prescription drugs
And never, ever, ever stopped
Deadly contagious and inter-generational
Never, ever, ever stops
And never ever gives a fuck

Pony up, join the club
Shake my hand, let's run amok

Superbug in my blood
Superbug made all the disturbing stuff
Superbug in my blood
Superbug made all the disturbing stuff

Superbug coming up
H1N1 was a flop
Anti-microbial, resistance is futile
Superbug is like a truck, penicillin is a duck
That's sitting on the road for luck
Faceless and ageless, it's simply outrageous
Never, ever, ever stops
And never ever gives a fuck

Unnecessary Anti-B's likely killed humanity

Superbug in my blood
Superbug made all the disturbing stuff
Superbug in my blood
Superbug made all the disturbing stuff

05. Venusian 1

Venusian One

Forest desertified
Ocean wave amplify
Constant tornado sky
Black water, no supply
Otherworld, surrogate
Interstellar our escape
Sulfur star liberates
Gotta beat the outbreak

Oh, we're going to the second planet from the sun
Oh, our ship can deliver us from our ruin
Death admirer, ground of fire
I heard there's a holy yellow sky
Just make sure you close your eyes
Venusian One

Made of junk from the Earth
Human waste, how absurd
Journey is childbirth
Plant a flag, start a church
Sharp as ice in the night
Cutting space, satellite
To a sphere set alight
We escaped parasites

Oh, we're going to the second planet from the sun
Oh, our ship can deliver us from our ruin
Floating helium, blimp of freedom
Outside air will bring you death
Just make sure you hold your breath
Venusian One

There is one Planet V

06. Perihelion

Space is the place for the human race
Chasing the race for the new place
Days on our old place waste
Starship's team full of everybody keen
Pilot in the twilight is a deep dream
Men and machine convene

Peri-perihelion
Peri-perihelion
Peri-perihelion
Peri-perihelion
Giver of life and the giver of speed
Ever we take even her gravity
Her glowing beauty is something to see
Bigger and brighter she cometh to me

Solar mountain comes on the perihelion
No rerouting, only counting 'til we're done
Shouting sins until we're in the suns
Melting humans and everything they bring
In a blink, the sun will drink their things
Grinning sun has sinners for dinner

Peri-perihelion
Peri-perihelion
Peri-perihelion
Peri-perihelion
Giver of life and the giver of speed
Ever we take even her gravity
Her glowing beauty is something to see
Bigger and brighter she cometh to me

Peri-perihelion
Peri-perihelion
Peri-perihelion
Peri-perihelion

07. Venusian 2

In the lap of the gods
The last one did explode in a blaze all fiery
I sit in the cockpit
It may be a sinking ship but fortune favors bravery

Road trip with me
Vitamin V in focus now
Venusian Two

Fingers getting warm and eyes are turning gold
Evil twin is coming in
Weathering the storm, I put the birdie down
For the sin, I have a grin

Road trip with me
Vitamin V, I see the ground

Venusian Two
Venusian Two

08. Self-immolate

I have gone insan-o
I lust for volcano
Be with molten lava
Give me my nirvana
I have no vertigo
I lust for tornado
Be a leaf upon air
Venusian mal de mer

Venusian sickness dire, I want to be set on fire
Venusian, gather while I Venusian-ly catch on fire
Auto-cremate, self-immolate

Like a bird in a cage
Aerostat habitat
To motion, I am slave
Give me hell, I want that
Venusian sickness, Venusian bilious, Venusian nausea
Venusian mal de mer

Venusian sickness dire, I want to be set on fire
Venusian, gather while I Venusian-ly catch on fire

Auto-cremate, self-immolate

09. Hell

God, it's pretty hot down here under surface
Antichrist has tempted me with a purpose

Remember where to enter, remember where to enter
The door to hell is amber

Here I was thinking I'd die
I see a thousand flies and wings and tails and spines
Nausealess, resoluteness near the entrance
Satan points me to the rats' nest

Remember where to enter, remember where to enter
The door to hell is amber
Remember where to enter, the door to hell is amber

Fifteen infantry paratroop into the propylene new scene
Hell's where they wanna be
Infest the rats' nest