You used to be the highest of your order But look at you now You are fang and claw and bone While your prey dances around you Just out of reach You are only held together by glue and steel While your prey dances around you Squawking like the birds in your jaws Connected by flesh and blood That rightfully belongs in your forgotten belly Your prey that once feared you Raised spear and arrow at your footprints Now brings their young within inches of Those same claws That gutted the great elks of Ireland But look at you now You are fang and claw and bone While your prey dances around you Connected by flesh and blood That rightfully belongs in your forgotten belly