The Scopes (🦠👽👾🌠)

[Verse 1 menacing tone] I rose from the crater you stand upon Scratching at the dirt where your future’s gone You search for fossils, you search for proof While I was rewriting the laws for you You cut me back to phase one skin Burn the shell, say I can’t win But every fragment left below Still whispers what you’ll never know (Evolution) [Pre-Chorus layered doubles on key phrases "evolution"] And I don’t believe In the hope you defend From the evidence I see You’re collapsing again And I don’t believe You can stop what’s begun I don’t need your lies I adapt to every end It’s not death — it’s design It’s evolution — raw evolution It’s evolution — constant evolution [Chorus aggressive, raw] And I — I won’t deny the mind inside It grows more violent every time You kill the shape, not what survives And why Do you still think I can die? I’m ruled by something cellular That learns from every genocide You’re facing something immortal Born from evolution Evolution… Evolution… [Verse 2 Slightly more unhinged delivery] Tentacles climbing your fragile walls Wings of a queen, hear the empire call Centaur running faster than fear A god in pieces that always reappears Spider veins through a single thread Cut one limb — feel the network spread Minotaur horns through smoke and flame Different flesh, the same domain (Evolution) [Pre-Chorus][Similar structure to first but heavier] And I don’t rely On emotion or fear When I look in your eyes I see extinction is near And I don’t collapse When you think I’m erased Every cure that you craft I outgrow, I replace It’s evolution — pure evolution It’s evolution — endless evolution [Chorus More aggressive] And I — I won’t deny The ancient drive inside It grows more violent every time You kill the shape, not what survives And why Do you still think I can die? I’m ruled by something cellular That learns from every genocide You’re facing something immortal Born from evolution Evolution… Evolution… [Bridge – hypnotic / escalating] Burn me down (Evolution) Freeze my veins (Evolution) Poison the blood (Evolution) I return again Yeti claws break the ice Gargoyle stare steals your sight Pink-wing gust in the sky Selenium dies Tree of flesh in your land Bull and horse fused to man Wasp-queen hum in your head One hive — one command Take a look at me now Take a look at me change Take a look at me now You never learn Take a look at me now Take a look at me evolve I always return I don’t dissolve Phase One… Phase Two… Phase Three… Extinction waits patiently. Evolution… Evolution… Evolution… [Final Chorus – heavier] And I — I won’t deny The perfect mind inside It survives every time you try And why Do you still think I can die? I’m ruled by something cellular That learns from every genocide You’re facing something immortal Born from evolution Evolution… Just evolution… Endless evolution… [Outro – stripped / obsessive] Why do you fight it? (Evolution) Why do you fear it? (Evolution) Kill this body — (Evolution) I remember. (Evolution) Kill me again. (Evolution) I’ll come back better. (Evolution)