[Verse 1]
Sirens choke in the choking smoke
Blood on the windshield
Engines stalled
Storefront glass like broken teeth
Dead in the doorway start to crawl
Empty cradle in the subway car
Jawbones working on a stranger's arm
Streetlights flicker
Turn to ash
I taste copper
I taste alarm
[Chorus]
The hungry dead
Tear the flesh from the failing brave
The hungry dead
Turn this town to a shallow grave
I feel their breath
On my back as the sky burns red
Run for my soul
But the world belongs to the hungry dead
[Verse 2]
Boot prints smeared in a stairwell slick
Neighbors pounding on a locked front door
Someone's prayer cut short mid-word
Teeth keep chewing on the tiled floor
Billboard faces chewed away
Traffic jammed with bitten hands
I jump a hood
Hear tendons snap
Their fingers claw like rusted brands
[Chorus]
The hungry dead
Tear the flesh from the failing brave
The hungry dead
Turn this town to a shallow grave
I feel their breath
On my back as the sky burns red
Run for my soul
But the world belongs to the hungry dead
[Bridge]
Crowded rooftop
Nowhere left
Rotting choir sings my name (hey!)
I see my shadow stretch and split
Am I prey or part of this game?
If I get out
What will be left
Of the man that I used to be?
Every scream I step across
Leaves a little less of me
[Chorus]
The hungry dead
Tear the flesh from the failing brave
The hungry dead
Turn this town to a shallow grave
I feel their breath
On my back as the sky burns red
Run for my soul
But the world belongs to the hungry dead (hungry dead)