Beautiful and wealthy is our town of Hamelin Neighbors are green with envy, proud my fellow citizens Our stomach’s are full, our dreams are calm We can either kill or buy all that comes our way
Please your honors – said he – I’m able By means of a secret charm, to draw All creatures living beneath the sun That creep or swim or fly or run After me so as you never saw! And I chiefly use my charm On creatures that do people harm The mole and toad and newt and viper And people call me the pied piper
But there’s this small embarrassing thing Filthy, disgusting, stinking rats They don’t belong here They don’t match Did almighty lord create the scum?
You can have your perfect world But you will have to pay the price
‘Cause there’s the small, embarrassing thing Filthy, disgusting, stinking us We don’t belong here We don’t match Your father in heavens didn’t create us
Pay your bills fellow citizens Or we will take your children with us It’s not about hatred, we’re not your enemies But you see, we have to feed the rats
And you will never learn Who’s the hunter and who’s prey in this game And you will never learn Who is Pied Piper and who’s rat in the end And you will never learn Who is the leader and who’s been lead