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Carnival of Rats (Nordic Discord Challenge)

Hallå, rats of the afterglow! From rot and ruin, see how we grow! Sewn our flags from their hollow laws— Ja! Ja! Ja! Watch the stitches gnaw! Whispered curses, now our hymn! As their "glory" caved in! They built heaven? Liar’s spire! We torch the blueprints—Kom igen! Burn higher! Hej! They scream "Repent! Obey!" So we carved "No!" in their marble graves! Not for mercy do we wail tonight— Nej! We cackle as their walls ignite! We rise! In ash and velvet! (Hej! Hej!) Crowned in rust! Draped in arson’s glow! Hand in hand! Through shattered glass! Turning graves to carnival shows! Break chains! Wear them like diamonds! (Ja!) Monstrous saints with gasoline hearts! We rise! Rise! (Stig! Stig!) From their wreckage— Reborn in the dark! Kom igen! Kom igen! Kiss the boots of dead kings? Nej! Their gold’s just paint on rotting teeth! Need no saviors, we build our own! (Hej!) From shattered screens and stolen thrones! Mirror whispered, "You’re the beast!" Now we bare our fangs and feast! Dance barefoot on their holy lies! This circus blooms where empires die! They begged silence? We sang earthquakes! They struck matches? We brought the lake! Storm their courts with wolves’ grace! Rewrite history— in our face! We rise! In ash and velvet! (Hej! Hej!) Crowned in rust! Draped in arson’s glow! We are flood! We are crows! We the worms in their holy bones! The plague that laughs as fire grows! Break chains! Wear them like diamonds! (Ja!) Monstrous saints with gasoline hearts! We rise! Rise! (Stig! Stig!) From their wreckage— Reborn in the dark! Kom igen! Kom igen! No gods! (Nej!) No masters! (Nej!) No chains unbroken! (Nej! Nej! Nej!) Just scars laughing in phantom smoke! One fist! One noose! One spark! One no! Together we rise— Now watch them go! We rise! In ash and velvet! (Hej! Hej!) Wreathed in soot! (Hej!) Spitting ruin’s hymn! (Nej!) We are forge! We are storm! The teeth that chewed through Eden’s bones! No longer rats—now kings in grime! (Ja!) Thrones of rubble, stained with time! (Nej!) We rise! Rise! (Stig! Stig!) From their wreckage— We build in the dark! Kom igen! Kom igen! Grin, love… sing soft as heavens crumble… This hymn’s ours— And the world’s a hollow tongue. Hallå igen, little rats… The throne’s a cage—but we’re the rot. Hej då! Hej då! Hej då! Hej då!