According to the band, "the lyrics behind 'The Meek Shall Inherit Shit' were actually inspired by the true horrors observed in the real world" and the song "is a premonitory message about the increasingly irreversible dangers of global pollution."
Guitarist and songwriter Jeremy Wagner further explains: "'The Meek Shall Inherit Shit' is a song I've been wanting to write lyrically for some time. I'm an environmentalist - a guy who considers environment, rather than heredity, as the primary influence on the development of human beings. Homo sapiens are living in a shitpile. We constantly foul our nest, we are killing the planet, and we cause up to 2,000 extinctions every year. Look, I don't want to get all hippy and political here. I just love the natural world so much and I hate what's being done to it. It fucking pisses me off! And you can hear my anger in the lyrics and the music of this track."
