[Verse 1]

Oh they want us to make like tigers

Stripping the bones and bleeding the blameless dry

And the story that reads us as liars

Show you the stripes I earned the shameful way

[Pre-Chorus]

There’s always killings to be made

A beautiful profit to turn from harm’s way

[Chorus]

And it’s always the end of the world again

All the blood and the colors and the shades of pain

Our animal nature, our cynical nature

And it’s always the end of the world again

Head to toe in an unbreakable arithmetic

Our animal nature, our cynical nature

[Verse 2]

And they’re running us round into butter

Grinding us down into so much ash and dust

And they want us to make like tigers

Eating our own as we choke on the love we’ve lost

[Pre-Chorus]

There’s always killings to be made

A beautiful profit to turn from harm’s way

[Chorus]

And it’s always the end of the world again

All the blood and the colors and the shades of pain

Our animal nature, our cynical nature

And it’s always the end of the world again

Head to toe in an unbreakable arithmetic

Our animal nature, our cynical nature