Red Queen Theory - The Herd

What do we want?

We want that muthafucking bomb

And we never pause to consider if we got it wrong

What we really want is a magic wand

Sell it for a song

Whatever the Red Queen wants

Chase Alice through Saddam’s palace?

if your feet don’t keep balance

Develop wings like Daedalus

Your neighbors get jealous and develop their own

But in the meantime consolidate your place on the throne

You prohibit alcohol and make a king of Capone

You had it coming, you better do more than running?

Skipping is jumping its outmuscling them and then bumping em

Its evolving ever better ways of outwitting the other come on

The endless cycle tit-for-tat

Cat-and-mouse game and never end the risk of that, nah

Empires expire, systems collapse

Viruses attack, bacteria fight back

It just don’t stop, keep running on the spot keep running round the clock come

on

Watch what’s behind you, cos now they’re beside you

Before you know it they’ll be flying right by you

What are you walking for?

Run!

Run like your life is in danger

Keep running but stay on the same spot

Imagine where we’d be if we stopped… Go!

Go!

What are you walking for?

Run!

Run like your life is in danger

Keep running but stay on the same spot

Imagine where we’d be if we stopped…

Keep running, running

Keep running, running

The Red Queen said keep the refugees locked up

Or ship em off to Malaysia, trying to persuade ya

That we can take a strong stance, stop the boats landing

They said that in 1788, still standing

Well we’re running on that treadmill, the polls demand it

Say one thing and do another, that’s underhanded

Let’s say racism was Hanson’s invention

But she wasn’t the one that put the kids in detention

But we really care a lot, look at the NT intervention

Running hard on the cure but not prevention

Now that’s a «Too-Hard Basket» if I ever saw one

It makes your apology look like a fucking poor one

Send in the troops to control the pay packets

Yo we’re taking the land

Well that sounds like the same racket

If we didn’t do something it’d be time to fret, ha

Genocide through benign neglect, yuh

What are you walking for?

Run!

Run like your life is in danger

Keep running but stay on the same spot

Imagine where we’d be if we stopped… Go!

Go!

What are you walking for?

Run!

Run like your life is in danger

Keep running but stay on the same spot

Imagine where we’d be if we stopped…

Keep running, running

Keep running, running

We keep running we keep we keep running