Prey is the third single released on April 24 2018 from their latest album Reverence. The song is about our social standards and how people will do anything to live up to them.
[Verse 1]
I got an axe to grind, a crooked mind
You better watch your back
I got an axe to grind, a crooked mind
You better watch your back
Starved like a vampire chasing a vein
Cruel disposition, sickness I crave
Attention, attention, welcome to the stage
Your new sacrifice, come sharpen your teeth
[Chorus]
Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow
Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow, our sorrow
Prey, prey, we're prey for the sorrow
Prey, prey, prey for the sorrow
[Verse 2]
I got an axe to grind, a crooked mind
You better watch your back
I got an axe to grind, a crooked mind
You better watch your back
Sick validation, gut full of pills
Self-medication, it's making me ill
Attention, attention, it's all eyes on me
I'll burn at the stake while you ache for the kill
[Chorus]
Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow
Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow, our sorrow
Prey for the sorrow, our sorrow
Prey, prey, we're prey for the sorrow
Prey, prey, prey for the sorrow
[Bridge]
Our new gods are empty like the holes in our heads
We dance upon the altar of envy and hubris
A scourge of narcissism reaps depression in black waves
If this is your salvation, you better pray
You better pray
You better pray
One, two, three, go
[Chorus]
Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow
Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow, our sorrow
Prey, prey, prey for the sorrow
Prey, prey, prey for the sorrow
Prey was written by Jeff Ling & Luke “Pig” Kilpatrick & Ben Gordon & Winston McCall.
Prey was produced by George Hadji-Christou.
Parkway Drive released Prey on Tue Apr 24 2018.
Parkway Drive frontman Winston McCall shared in a RockSound track-by-track interview:
Not all the songs on this record are super personal but they all come from a very angry place. ‘Prey’ is about what we are doing to ourselves in the sense of goals of what you do and be and look and say. I’m talki...