The Goblin Way

We can run like cowards
We can fight like dogs
We can live in squalor
Or high up on the hog

And we’re small and scrappy
Ugly to your eyes
But what good is beauty
When it’s time to die

We’re owner operator independent hired guns
Skunkworks and foul play
And we’re not too proud to do a dirty job that must be done
Because that’s the goblin way

Our desires are simple
And our needs are few
But the rules don’t apply to us
Like they do to you

It’s said we have a code that keeps us loyal to the pack
What it is we couldn’t say
But we wouldn’t hesitate to stab our mothers in the back
Because that’s the goblin way

We drink and we remember
We fight and we forget
We’re living in the moment
It’s all that we may get
We’re ransackers and raiders
And we keep a running bet
On when we’ll take it all too far
But it hasn’t happened yet

And we know no shame
And we feel no guilt
For the things we take
Or the blood we spill

This wretched world is just about to give its final groan
It could all go any day
But while we’re still alive we’ll suck the marrow from its bones
Come whatever may
Because that’s the goblin way