You can claw your way out
Like a rat in a trap
Trying to break free
But when you try to break out
The only road leads back to captivity
Hear me, all you dissenters
You’ll stand on broken pulpits
I will give a future of absolutes
There is no reckoning

All hail! the caged animal
Chaos will be his throne
This bane is terminal
The prince of dust and bone

I will climb my way out
Ascend the hill
Raise the banner
Release the bonded cattle
I’ll be the dissenter

All hail! the caged animal
Chaos will be his throne
This bane is terminal
The prince of dust and bone

Ten thousand years of sorrow
Yet, no one will grieve
The sun will rise tomorrow
And you’ll still look nothing like me

All hail! The caged animal
All hail! The caged animal

Ten thousand years of sorrow
Yet, no one will grieve
The sun will rise tomorrow
And you’ll still look nothing like me
You think yourself a martyr
You’re nothing but a HERETIC




Behind the Song:
'Gnasher' introduces an authoritarian antagonist. A beast or system that devours dissent. But also a resolve: “I’ll be the dissenter.”