Praying Mantis

[Paco Del Stinko]

Praying Mantis - Paco del Stinko

Frozen alive ten millennia ago, buried in ice and deep in the snow
A nuclear blast on the North Pole, opened the past and let the beast go

Battling troops up on the tundra, it claws and it scoops a monsterous wonder
Up to the skies bodies fall from its mouth, at the speed of sound it's flying due south

Praying Mantis came to life
Look out when it turns to you with its gigantic eyes
Praying Mantis came to life
It's flying overhead and when it comes everyone dies

Down to DC by the Capital Dome, the home of free speach burning like Rome
It turned and flew north death in its wake, Philly got torched and nothing is safe

Praying Mantis came to life
Look out when it turns to you with its gigantic eyes
Praying Mantis came to life
It's flying overhead and when it comes everyone dies

You better run and hide cos it might come for you
Don't be dumb and cry try not to let it through
Then again I changed my mind there's nothing you can do

The Hudson River went by in a flash, torch bearing lady came down in a crash
Into a tunnel the mistake was its last, they blocked all the vents and gave it the gas
But when they unsealed the dark tunnel's mouth, everyone screamed and the mantis flew out

Praying Mantis came to life
Look out when it turns to you with its gigantic eyes
Praying Mantis came to life
It's flying overhead and when it comes everyone dies
Everyone dies
Everyone dies
Everyone dies

[ken]

Berkeley Social Scene

Cmaj7 G
Searchers look for something unseen
Keeping their their eyes wide open
False idols wait around every corner
Hiding their teeth behind smiles

Am C G Em
Am C G D
Keep your head
Get down on your knees
Praying Mantis
Knows just what you need

Behind the green curtain there stands a man
as soon as you meet him you understand
The silver bullet promises much
Aside from hard work and patience

Keep your head
Get down on your knees
Praying Mantis
Knows just what you need

F Dm Am Am
run like there’s a demon at your heels
Time isn’t a chasm, it’s a wheel
You’ll end up where you’re supposed to be
Regardless of all your energy

Keep your head
Get down on your knees
Praying Mantis
Knows just what you need

Keep your head
Get down on your knees
Praying Mantis
Knows just what you need

[iVeg]

INFLATABLE VEGETABLES

I'm a praying man
Rugged jungle land
Trying to understand
The language and the rites

She's a local babe
Wrapped in floral drape
Dancing through the landscape
Singing in the twilight

I'm in love with a cannibal girl
A cannibal, cannibal, cannibal girl
When she tries to give me kisses
I duck so that she always misses
I'm afraid of my cannibal girl
My cannibal, cannibal, cannibal girl
Longing eyes hide dark abysses
We're like praying mantises

I'm a praying guy
I wonder why
She keeps ex-lovers skulls
Nailed onto the doorposts

She's a pretty girl
In a brutal world
Where the one you love today
Can be tomorrow's pot roast

CH

Even though I've lost my heart I try to keep my head
I try to change her way of thinking
She tempts me to crawl into her bed

CH

[MicahSommer]

PRAYING MANTIS
Micah Sommersmith

Watch out, I’m a praying mantis
Spit rhymes so fierce it’ll scare you pantsless
Can’t understand my outlandish stanzas?
You brand them as random cause you can’t handle em
Beware of my mandibles
I can tear into you like a cannibal
You can't get past me, try to outlast me,
I never stop, I'm a mechanical bull
Got horns, got claws, got spines, got jaws
Got a lot going on, gonna give you pause
Got a good thing going? Get going, get gone,
Better run if you want to see another sun
Did I say I was a bull? I’m more like a lion
I’m the main man, can’t tame me, no use trying
If this is what you want, then here’s your big send-off:
I growl, I roar, I bite your head off

I’m a praying mantis
If you think you can withstand this
Then come on, take your chances
But I’m a praying mantis

I’m a praying mantis, and you’re my prey
I revel every day in my predatory ways
I say hey hey, I make you feel okay
And then I come from behind and you’re DOA
I gotta have my fun, so I’ll toy with you all
Then one by one, I’ll be destroying you all
I look around, wonder are there more of you all,
Never mind, I’m bored with you, all right!
Thank you for a very nice fight night
You see that white light
Coming at you quite bright?
Nothing too sinister, just the big finisher
You might need a minister to administer your last rites
Have I broken some sacred commandment?
Don’t pray for me; I’m a praying mantis

I’m a praying mantis
If you think you can withstand this
Then come on, take your chances
But I’m a praying mantis

[Jerkatorium]

Praying Mantis by Jerkatorium

Golden oldies:
Mother told me
Someday I’d meet girls like you,
But that warning’s
Just one more thing
Mothers always tend to do.

And how can I resist your charms?
It’s like I’m all wrapped up in six strong arms.

Every friend
Says this will end
In such an awful, messy way.
They all see
Our chemistry
As more like predator and prey.

When we’re alone, just me and you,
I really lose my head, I quite literally do.

Oh black widow, oh man, you’re my praying mantis
I’m trying hard to please as
You’re tearing me to pieces
Oh black widow, oh girl, you’re my praying mantis
Taking me to bed
Then you’re ripping me to shreds
Oh man, you’re my praying mantis.

Mother told me,
Yes she told me
I should stay away from you.
Not so nice
But that’s advice
I heard from everyone else, too.

But now we’ll never ever part;
Now you’ve got your claws lodged deep inside my heart.

Oh black widow, oh man, you’re my praying mantis
I’m trying hard to please as
You’re tearing me to pieces
Oh black widow, oh girl, you’re my praying mantis
Taking me to bed
Then you’re ripping me to shreds
Oh girl, you’re my praying mantis.

[GravityJohnson]

Praying Mantis by Macaque Attack
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Verse 1

A dimly lit room,
A cacophony of bleeps and booms,
Like an eighties arcade,
Turned up to eleven,
Shouted conversations
Conducted in the gloom,
Lips pressed against ears,
Promising all heaven

She stalks alone,
Circles slowly views her prey,
Consciously selecting,
Her victims with pleasure,
The susceptible loners,
The desperate and fey,
Destined to become,
A memento, a treasure

Chorus

Once she's had you,
She'll devour you,
Once she's had you,
You'll be no more

Verse 2

Within her lair,
Amazement at how succinct,
The end becomes,
Reality,
A stop motion marionette,
Oh so distinct,
A temptress you behold,
And never unsee

Paralysed,
With fear, and avidity,
Toys of gratification,
Strewn upon the floor,
Like some vulgar modern,
Art installation,
Dredged from the mind,
Of a depraved whore

Chorus

Once she's had you,
She'll devour you,
Once she's had you,
You'll be no more

Heavier Bit

A mosaic of cocaine lines,
Pornographic flyers,
Cigarette ash, empty bottles,
Myriad desires,
Cream upon the skin,
All the parts that please,
You know what she wants,
You know what she needs,

Chorus

Once she's had you,
She'll devour you,
Once she's had you,
You'll be no more

Instrumental Verse

End Part

As you accept your fate,
And the end begins,
Prepare to nourish,
Retreat within,
Remember joy,
Shut out the pain,
Bask in sunlight,
Dance in rain,

Fleeting glimpses,
Of a life extinct,
Numbness, darkness,
Settling in,
Close your eyes now,
And hold your breath,
Become subsistence,
Succumb to death

[cookie]

Cookie Blue

(Praying I'm praying I'm praying for you
Prying I'm prying for you
Preying I'm preying I'm preying on you
Praying for you)

Down by the rocks I saw the perfect spot
With branches overhead, some flowers nearby
Down by the trees you're dancing for me
Two lovers in the sun in july

Come a little closer, little lover, little friend
What a perfect way for this day to end
Come a little closer, sing yourself a lullaby
Oh what a perfect way to die

(Preying I'm preying I'm preying on you
Praying for you)

Down by the rocks I saw the perfect spot
With branches overhead, birds and butterflies
Down by the trees you're dancing for me
For the very first time in our lives

Come a little closer, little lover, little friend
What a perfect way for this life to end
Come a little closer, sing yourself a lullaby
Until awoken by your dying cry

ashes to ashes, all that's good must die
else we'd endlessly multiply
dust to dust, enriches the earth
in order for new life to be birthed

(Praying, I'm praying I'm praying for you
Preying on you)

(solo)

(Preying I'm preying I'm preying on you
Praying for you)

Down by the rocks it's my special spot
'tween the flowers I'm hard to satisfy
Down by the trees they're dancing for me
I'm waiting for another contestant to try

[starfinger]

Praying Mantis by Starfinger
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all aboard for the isle of danger
everybody wants to see what's.. there
perhaps a monkey the size of a building
can be found.. ohhhhhh

there are indeed rumors of a beast
so terrible that the stories linger
in the shadows, when they're told
the room grows cold

with a form of woman
seductive and beguiling
everybody scrambles to get her alone

feeling like a champion
the male enters her chamber
ignorant of danger
forgetting she's a stranger


// CHORUS
when..
you're in the lair of the
praying mantis
you are the dinner and the show
oh

don't lose your head or you'll
lose your head
and all your children will never know
(their daddy)



it's ok to be scared --
it's only natural
i said
it's ok (it's good) to be scared --
it's only natural


so if you're coming to the isle of danger
don't forget the stories that you've heard

be careful what you wish for
always bring protection
it's wise to show discretion
when you're basting a bird

in the dark,
the dimmest light shines like a beacon
follow that and it will lead you to your home
or stick around and wait for the
mantis and your fate
it's a dream come true
if your dream is dangerous to you