[Intro] (drums alone, tom-heavy, 4 bars, then full band hits) [Verse 1 - Male Spoken Word, Shouted] You ate the fat and you wore the wool and you killed the ones that were doing fine, and the broken one you never bound, and the one that wandered off — you never once went out. [Chorus - Male, Shouted] (hard cut, full energy immediate) You ate the wool. You ate the wool off the back of the sheep. You ate the wool. [Verse 2 - Male Spoken Word] (band pulls back, guitar arpeggio, voice closer) You strained the gnat. You made them watch you do it. You built the room and you put your name on the door and you called the collection an act of worship and the worship an act of obedience and the obedience the only door there is. [Chorus - Male, Shouted] You ate the wool. You ate the wool off the back of the sheep. You ate the wool. [Bridge - Male Spoken Word] (drums drop completely, detuned piano hammering) And I have their names. I have every one of their names. I keep the list in the back of my Bible — in pencil, so that I can keep adding to it. [Final Chorus - Male, Screamed] (short silence, then the biggest and ugliest version) You ate the wool. You ate the wool off the back of the sheep. YOU ATE THE WOOL. [Outro] (everything cuts except one guitar in sustained feedback, held, decaying — do not resolve, do not fade) [End]
