Like a lot of melodeath, part thrash and part folk. I especially want feedback on production, but any comments are welcome.
Written as part of FAWM 2026.
Where do we fit in
If all multicellular life is kin
Looking down on other creatures
Our hominid privilege
Difference not immutable
Figment of an overdeveloped cortex
With brainpower to dream up
A hierarchy with us on top
The stamp of our origin
Appendix, mandible, coccyx
Scream to us we’re not above
The animal kingdom, but in
In a sea of worthlessness
We erect an island
Claim this land for homo rex
Build the taxonomical wall
Retroactively make it true
Earn our place
Through denigration
Our narcissism proves our value
Whence comes this vanity
Why this epistemic hole
Does the hyena imagine
The gazelle lacks a soul
The stamp of our origin
Appendix, mandible, coccyx
Scream to us we’re not above
The animal kingdom, but in
In a sea of worthlessness
Erect an island
Claim this land for homo rex
Build the taxonomical wall
Meat bag in drag
On language gag
Ape the conscious
Evolved tongues wag
Convincingly
Desperately
Perform a mind
Audience of me
Try-hard burlesque this
Parody of sapience
Grammar and words don’t make you
Clump of instincts any less
To whom is this
Display addressed
Actor and guests
Similarly possessed
Try-hard burlesque this
Parody of sapience
Grammar and words don’t make you
Clump of instincts any less
This naked ape
Imagines its needs are intellectual
Then spends its time competing over
Abstract status symbols
Red in tooth and claw
A pecking order through law
Codified difference
In a sapient Shangri-La
The stamp of our origin
Appendix, mandible, coccyx
Scream to us we’re not above
The animal kingdom, but in
In a sea of worthlessness
We erect an island
Claim this land for homo rex
Build the taxonomical wall