[Verse 1] Lunch bell rings at twelve-oh-five, meat drops somewhere downtown. Could be a courthouse, could be a college, could be underneath the playground. Twelve-hundred calories daily— just enough to keep us mean. Keep us lean beneath the Dome, keep the cameras nice and clean. I hate the screaming. Hate the chase. Christ, your jaw starts aching when you're chewing too long in one place. [Chorus] CANNIBAL! I DON’T WANNA BE A CANNIBAL! But starvation makes a reasonable man get unreasonable. CANNIBAL! EVERYBODY’S SO DAMN HUNGRY! Chew it down. Keep it raw. Smile pretty for the people watching...at home! yeah! [Verse 2] Morning shift down at the car wash, night class over at the school. Someone teaches mathematics. Someone cleans the swimming pool. We make coffee. We fix engines. We fall in love and pay our rent. Every ordinary little thing inside the Dome experiment. [Pre-Chorus] We’re the condemned. We’re the feed. We’re the labor. We’re the need. They want to watch a normal man discover what he’ll do to eat. [Chorus] CANNIBAL! I DON’T WANNA BE A CANNIBAL! But starvation makes a reasonable man get unreasonable. CANNIBAL! EVERYBODY’S SO DAMN HUNGRY! Chew it down. Keep it raw. Smile pretty for the people watching...at home! [Verse 3] NO WEAPONS. RAW MEAT ONLY. PARTICIPATION MANDATORY. They dump them in the Dome’s streets. [sterile male voice] “TODAY’S MEAT IS READY.” [Breakdown] Failure to participate is grounds for punishment. There is only one punishment. Next meal— is you. YOU!!! [Bridge] Take away two meals and everybody learns what civilization means. [Final Chorus] CANNIBAL! I DON’T WANNA BE A CANNIBAL! But twelve-hundred calories makes morality negotiable. CANNIBAL! KEEP US LEAN AND KEEP US HUNGRY! Work all day. Eat at noon. Give the audience their money...at home! I hate the screaming. Hate the taste. Hate the chewing. Hate the waste. But when that siren sounds— we all start running... [Outro] [insane screaming]
