Cthulhu
The Acacia Strain Lyrics


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I wouldn't touch you with someone else's dick.
Don't worry bitch, you don't have anything I haven't seen before.
I am the last of a dying breed.
I already told you what your name means, and if you call me "Vince" one more time I'm going to rip your fucking head off.
It's nothing more than a failure to listen, but it's a giant sign of disrespect.
Nothing more than a failure to listen, but a giant sign of disrespect.
If you really want to know something you'll look it up.
If you really want to know something you'll do the fucking research.
Google, Youtube, W dot something.
The future is at your finger tips.
Backpedaling into the primordial ooze.
Board the windows try to hide.
This is going to hurt you more than me.
Beauty isn't skin deep, beauty doesn't exist.
My mind has been made up for me.
Dreamt of a world without life.
Woke up and you don't exist.
No one can stop me I am the death machine.




You are doomed.
And you will all be judge.

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of The Acacia Strain's song Cthulhu are a manifestation of the lead vocalist's disdain for the current generation's lack of curiosity and disregard for facts. The opening line, "I wouldn't touch you with someone else's dick" is a rejection of the immaturity and falsehoods that exist in the world today. The next couple of lines, "Don't worry bitch, you don't have anything I haven't seen before" is the vocalist’s way of deriding those who make false and outlandish claims. He has seen it all before and is dismissing them as nothing new.


The line "I am the last of a dying breed" is a reference to the fact that proper research and fact-checking have fallen by the wayside and are almost non-existent. The next two lines, "I already told you what your name means, and if you call me "Vince" one more time I'm going to rip your fucking head off" is a show of anger and frustration towards those who can’t be bothered to listen. The next two lines reflect the theme where a failure to listen and show respect is the reason why people are not well-informed.


The lyrics go on to urge people to look up information if they genuinely wanted to know it. The future is at everyone’s fingertips, and people should utilize the vast amount of resources available on the internet for research. The next few lines are a warning of an impending danger, where one should board their windows and try to hide. Towards the end, the lyrics suggest that no amount of diversion and resistance can stop the vocalist's pursuit of truth, and he sees himself as a judge over those who disregard it.


Line by Line Meaning

I wouldn't touch you with someone else's dick.
I find you so revolting that I wouldn't even touch you with someone else's genitals.


Don't worry bitch, you don't have anything I haven't seen before.
You're not special or unique in any way, so there's no reason for you to be concerned.


I am the last of a dying breed.
I am a rare and dying type of person, perhaps due to my unique mindset or way of life.


I already told you what your name means, and if you call me "Vince" one more time I'm going to rip your fucking head off.
I have already explained the meaning of your name to you, and if you disrespect me again by calling me by the wrong name, I will become incredibly angry and possibly violent.


It's nothing more than a failure to listen, but it's a giant sign of disrespect.
Your failure to listen to me may seem small, but it is actually a major sign of disrespect and disregard for my thoughts and feelings.


Nothing more than a failure to listen, but a giant sign of disrespect.
Once again, your failure to listen may seem like a small issue, but it truly speaks volumes about your attitude towards me and our relationship.


If you really want to know something you'll look it up.
If you are truly interested in something and want to learn more about it, you will take the initiative to do your own research and find out the answers you seek.


If you really want to know something you'll do the fucking research.
Once again, the message here is that true curiosity cannot be satisfied by relying solely on the knowledge of others; one must take the initiative to learn for oneself.


Google, Youtube, W dot something.
These are all resources that can help one to learn more and gain knowledge in today's digital age.


The future is at your finger tips.
We live in a world of incredible opportunity and knowledge, thanks to the many tools and technologies available to us today. The possibilities are virtually endless.


Backpedaling into the primordial ooze.
This line suggests a regression, a moving backwards or away from progress - perhaps as if one were literally retreating back into primitive, prehistoric times.


Board the windows try to hide.
This line suggests fear and a desire to protect oneself from some kind of impending danger. It may be interpreted figuratively (e.g. emotional vulnerability) or literally (e.g. a natural disaster).


This is going to hurt you more than me.
Typically spoken by a person who is about to cause someone else pain or punishment, this line suggests that the perpetrator believes the victim will suffer more than the perpetrator as a result of the action - though this may not necessarily be true.


Beauty isn't skin deep, beauty doesn't exist.
This line challenges the idea of conventional beauty standards, suggesting that true beauty is not merely surface-level or physical. It also suggests that true beauty may not exist at all.


My mind has been made up for me.
This line suggests a lack of personal agency, as if the singer's thoughts and opinions have been predetermined or influenced by external forces beyond their control.


Dreamt of a world without life.
This line suggests a kind of existential despair or nihilism, as if the artist has fantasized about a world where nothing exists or nothing matters.


Woke up and you don't exist.
This line continues the theme of nihilism or existentialism, as if the artist is questioning the very reality of existence and the people within it - perhaps even suggesting that they have ceased to exist in some way.


No one can stop me I am the death machine.
This line suggests a kind of arrogant confidence or even a sense of invincibility, as if the singer believes they are so powerful or dangerous that no one can stand in their way.


You are doomed.
This line is a direct statement of someone's impending fate or doom - suggesting that they will face some kind of punishment or bad outcome soon.


And you will all be judged.
This line hints at some kind of future judgment or reckoning, as if the artist believes there will be justice or retribution for actions taken in the past - perhaps indicating a sense of moral superiority or a desire for revenge.




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Chris Wu


on Giving

Whatever walks there walks alone
Whatever walks there walks alone
She takes as much as she gives
She can see us
We are immortal
Whatever walks there walks alone
These gods do not believe in us
Whatever walks there walks alone
No end in sight
No sight in the end
Whatever walks there walks alone
Self-sacrifice for the living and the dead
Whatever walks there walks alone
We are immortal

Chris Wu


on Was

[Intro]
They always come crawling back
Whatever walks there walks alone

[Interlude]
How they thought that there were other dimensions
You know, other, other worlds
All around us, and how they wanted to try and make, um
A window
You know, so they could look through and see what's on the other side
Well, maybe your window turned out to be a door, didn't it?
Not mine, those scientists'!
Oh, the scientists!
Yes, the scientists!
They must have ripped a hole open by accident, this other world came spilling through to ours
That's what Donaldson was saying to me right before he killed himself, I didn't understand the half of it
It ain't my fault!

[Chorus]
Only the dead know
Only the dead know

[Verse 1]
Tears in the fabric
Lurking in the shadows
In the doorways of unreality
He says his name is Death
The truth is, he is something worse

[Interlude]
Don't you know by now?
Don't you know the truth?
We are being punished
For what?
For going against the will of God!
For going against his forbidden rules of old!
Walking on the moon!
Yes! Yes!
Or, or splitting his atoms!
Amen!
Or, or, or stem cells and abortions!
And destroying the secrets of life
That only God above has any right to!
Amen! Amen!

[Chorus]
Only the dead know
Only the dead know

[Verse 2]
Experience the true reality
Beyond the curtain
Beyond all sight and sound
Consciousness collapsing all around us
This is the veil being lifted
They waited

[Bridge]
It comes
It comes in
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in
It comes
It comes in waves

[Outro]
Wishing away the sand
Washing away all you love
The days of darkness
The absence of light
Washing away all you love
Breath of God
Gaze of the old
It comes in waves

Chris Wu


on Sin

[Verse 1]
Collapsing backwards
We should have never answered
No reconnect
God of death
The water made wood
The soil turns to snakes
And then the sky collapsed
And then my mind collapsed
This is not a spiritual war
Our only sin was giving them names

[Verse 2]
Knowledge passed
I was never asked
Stampede upon the mind
The pearls become the swine
This is not a spiritual war
Our only sin was giving them names
The tower has fallen
The staircase leads to nowhere
This is an attack on the mind

[Bridge]
I want you to feel
What I feel
I want you to see
What I've seen
I want you to feel
What I feel
I want you to see
What I've seen

[Outro]
"Without body
They are illusions only
Shadows, without substance
They will not pass through your body, for they do not exist"
"They do not exist"
"Unreal, appearances only
They are shadows, illusions
Nothing but ghosts of reality
They are lies, falsehoods, specters, without body
They are to be ignored"

Chris Wu


on Only

[Verse]
We all fall into the gaping maw, into the shattering abyss
We all fall into the endless void
No such thing as dying
Collapsed lung
Collapsed reality
Relapsing through eternity
We all fall
Time has no shape, it's an entity

[Bridge]
(It comes in waves
It comes in waves
It comes in waves
It comes in waves
It comes in waves
It comes in waves)

[Breakdown]
Frozen and floating
Vanishing without a trace
Frozen and floating
Pushing farther away
Frozen and floating
No signs of life
Frozen and floating
Left somewhere God would never find

Chris Wu


on Them

[Intro]
Spirit tomb
Sacrificing fear

[Verse 1]
We will throw orchids, not roses
Burning on the funeral pyre of the world
Sweet, glowing rot dancing in our nostrils
Scent is memory, remind us to stop breathing

[Chorus]
Gravity is life pulling us to the grave
Heaven is a void of light
You are tied down by your emotions
Spiral through the creeping void

[Verse 2]
The tomb is open
Anyone that comes near
Will retreat in fear of what is inside
Devoured by failure
We have determined that you are not worthy

[Chorus]
Gravity is life pulling us to the grave
Heaven is a void of light
You are tied down by your emotions
Spiral through the creeping void

Chris Wu


on Names

[Verse 1]
The cradle hangs heavy above the circling wolves
And when it falls they will kill us all
The ghosts that haunt this earth are different than you think
No ethereal plane, just incomprehensible realities
(We have disappeared but we are inevitable
And the cell begins to divide)

[Verse 2]
The decision was your own
You chose wrong every time
You will feel no pain
Head back into a dreamless sleep
Catatonic unreality
Anomalies of the mind
There is no wrong, there is no right
They have returned
The sun sets on us all
Daylight
Twilight
Full dark

[Bridge 1]
I am in the doorway
Tomorrow brings new plague
I can see the end of it all
Tomorrow brings a new plague

[Verse 3]
Creatures from beyond reality
Offering ecstasy
Meet the new normal
Escape the bonds of consciousness

[Bridge 2]
Slip through
Slide in
Slip through
Slide in
Slip through
Slide in
Slip through
Slide in
I can't believe what I've seen
No one should
What have I done?
Abandoned all I held in my heart
Violent beings without form
Everyone will feel the same pain
Sorry will never be enough

[Interlude]
Who would've crossed oceans
Now have seen outstanding waters
Wondering what we could've done differently
Galaxies burnt out and frozen forever
Extermination
Life never known
Interdimensional agony
You will have never known it was even there
All places, all things have souls
All souls can be devoured

[Outro]
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes
It comes in waves
It comes

Chris


on Feed A Pigeon Breed A Rat

It feels like hell

Breeding rats
Breeding rats
Breeding rats
Breeding rats

The whole planet is crawling
We have cut off our food supply
Teeming with vermin and blight
A mindless hive

While you all self-medicate
You live to contaminate
Our only option is to terminate
Before you continue to pollinate

They trample the weak (Trample the weak)
The lifeline is bleak
Obsolete (Obsolete)
Diseased
Deceased

Breeding rats
Breeding rats
Breeding rats
Breeding rats

It feels like hell
It feels like hell
It feels like hell
It feels like hell
It feels like hell
It feels like hell

Chris


on NONE OF US ASKED TO BE HERE

Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust
Return to dust

Face down in the mud
Footprints leaving trails of blood
Eyes set in their final stare
The scent of death clings to the air
The solid stream of flesh and bone
Everyone here died alone

Dirt and gravel drag us down
Just another body in the ground
The world we know is fucking ending
It's not surrender, it's acceptance
Welcome to die

I don't recognize the sights
The sun no longer shines
I'll see you on the other side
Just let me die

There is no love in the human race
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no love in the human race
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave
There is no life in a coward's grave

Chris


on UNTENDED GRAVES

The cemetery grass grows thick with the stench of the dead
Blood and bone fertilize the flower bed
Caskets collapse with the weight of the grime
Nothing but growth to remember us by

Markers wither with time
No trace left behind
I don't wanna die
I don't want to die

The ground and animals burn
The world continues to turn
Heat begins to vaporize
Anything left alive

As time goes on
And we do not
The hands fall off
The fucking clock
Collectively we turn our head
The orphaned planet left for dead

We refuse to believe
We are fucking weak

My love will be felt
Praying for heaven but begging for hell

This sadness will last forever
This sadness will last forever

Piles of corpses are rotting and spoiled
Rivers of blood poison the soil

Chris


on IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING?

The bugs will crawl
Poisoned only by the salt
Vermin swim through the blood and the shit
Addicted to the smell of it

The blade cuts the skin and shines
The wounded scream as they climb
The mind lives on but the body dies
The end of everything we despise

Flowers poisoned by the smell
The entire globe a living hell
No cleansing of this awful curse
The rain only makes it worse (Makes it worse)

Imagine the overgrowth
As your body begins to decompose
The skin has been flayed
All the bodies are riddled with decay

Your life will end with teeth
Just another piece of rotten meat
Your life will end with teeth
Just another piece of rotten meat

They aren't dead and they hunt
They are after us all, they take what they want
More food for the worms
I crack a smile as the world burns

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