[Verse 1]
Dug deeper than last time / Past the coral, past the lime
Found a tooth the size of my forearm / Been waiting since the prehistoric time
Megalodon in the dust bed / Jaw wide, still hungry after death
I ran my finger down the serrated edge / And I felt the ocean's last breath
[Chorus]
Carcharodon crawl / I don't need water at all
Just a tooth the size of a curse
And a hunger that gets worse
The shark never needed the sea
The shark just needed to be
The thing that everyone fears
I've been a shark for years
[Verse 2]
I strapped the tooth to my surfboard / Now it cuts through dust like flesh
I paddled up a dune today / And rode the red tide from the crest
The bone reef below me scattered / Fish skeletons swam in the wind
I opened my mouth and tasted it / The blood of a world that sinned
[Chorus]
Carcharodon crawl / I don't need water at all
Just a tooth the size of a curse
And a hunger that gets worse
The shark never needed the sea
The shark just needed to be
The thing that everyone fears
I've been a shark for years
[Bass solo - 40 seconds]
[Low. Rumbling. Played with a pick on the lowest string.] [Each note held until it decays into feedback.] [Then the next note. Then the next. Then the bass drops out completely.]
[Outro - whispered over silence, then sung]
[whispered]
The shark doesn't swim. The shark is.
[sung, low, fading]
Carcharodon crawl... carcharodon crawl...
Tooth in my hand... dust in my jaw...
I am the megalodon... I am the jaw...
I am the hunger... without a flaw...
[last line, spoken:]
Feed.