As we pierce through the skin of a suitable host
Into his skin and right into his soles and toes
Small larvae searching for somewhere to feed
For a suitable host in which we can breed
Our life cycle goes around and around and round
Starting out from eggs dormant on the ground
When the time is right then we hatch
Of worm to host, gotta be a match
Living life inside some poor sucker's guts
Stealing nutrients, wiggling out their butts,
Food, it's the thing that all the little larvae feel like
Getting a meal with every single host's bite

We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites
We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites
We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites
We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites

Oh not all of us develop the same way
Some of us take months to grow and others just a day
Some of us just have one host we stay in all our life
While others move from host to host just to stay alive
We spread our eggs from animals whenever they poo
Hitching rides in a snail or sheep or people too
There are tapeworms who grow long and break in little bits
Or the little worms that give an itch in little kids
However way we do it we're in a relationship
Unwanted and unwelcome guests you just can't get rid
Living in your body, feeding off every day
It'll take much more that that for us to go away

Tell me, parasitic is how we be
That the one we hurt is you and not me

We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites
We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites
We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites
We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites

This type of symbiosis, you get the short deal
We feed off your sustenance from each and every meal
Some of us start as little ones that are free swimming
Before we take over somebody for a living
It's how we live and how we roll
As worms that live and worms that crawl
We can't survive when we're on our own
So we make somebody's gut our home

We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites
We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites
We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites
We're spending most of our lives
Living as internal parasites

Tell me, parasitic is how we be
That the one we hurt is you and not me
Tell me, parasitic is how we be
That the one we hurt is you and not me