Kill the Rat King

AI/KI Verse 1 Born where the wet stones sweat below, Where torchlight dies and foul winds blow. Among the scraps, the rust, the grime, He learned to fear the scratching time. Verse 2 At first it seemed like gutter sound, The usual teeth beneath the ground. But some eyes stared and did not flee, As if they knew what was to be. Pre-Chorus Then earth split wide with screaming jaws, And dragged his kin through broken walls. The dark began to move and breathe — A tide of fur and iron teeth. Chorus Kill the Rat King, break his crown, Burn his tunnels to the ground. Every claw and every fang, Shall answer for the screams that rang. Through blood and rot, through fear and sting, He lives to kill the Rat King. Verse 3 They came on two legs, blade in paw, With leather shields and rusted law. Fast as plague and twice as cruel, They turned the tunnels into fuel. Verse 4 Seven nights the slaughter stayed, In guts and smoke and steel it played. He hid, he fought, he crawled through bone, And rose when all was ash and groan. Pre-Chorus Ninety souls of hundred gone, Yet still the scratching carried on. Now every sewer, drain, and wall Becomes a battlefield and call. Chorus Kill the Rat King, break his crown, Burn his tunnels to the ground. Every claw and every fang, Shall answer for the screams that rang. Through blood and rot, through fear and sting, He lives to kill the Rat King. Bridge Some call him mad when shadows squeak, When every floorboard starts to speak. But madness knows what others miss — A kingdom hidden under this. Final Chorus Kill the Rat King, split his throne, Rip the teeth from every bone. Bring the skull through smoke and sting, A trophy for the fallen kin. Till then no peace, no rest, no spring — He hunts to kill the Rat King.