[Verse 1]
A crab crawls through the emptied strand,
No shells remain, just plastic and sand.
The ocean bed lies stripped and bare,
Where small lives vanished from their lairs.

What refuge now in waters cold,
When tide and calcium fail to hold?
A pill bottle shell, brittle and gray,
Left in the drift of radiological decay.

[Verse 2]
Where colors shone and shell beds laid,
Now glass and caps mark what has frayed.
Filter feeders, thinned and erased,
By ongoing meltdowns no one faced.

Alone the crab roams, no shelter near,
Drawn by need and held by fear.
A pill’s empty shell, a final embrace,
Of human hands in a ruined place.

[Chorus]
Lost shells, a silent wail,
Life unmoored on a broken scale.
In altered seas, the quiet fall,
Lost shells, no homes at all.

[Verse 3]
With each lost shell, the waters dim,
A crab still searches at the rim.
What once was home has slipped from sight,
The smallest life left out of place.

The final drift of creatures small,
Carried where the dead tides call.
No shells to hide, no shells to hide,
Only waste along the tide.

[Bridge - Reprise]
The hermit crab lives in an Adderall shell,
(The hermit crab lives in an Adderall shell).
The hermit crab lives in an Adderall shell.

[Pause]

Ongoing meltdowns, a world unaware,
And no one left to care.

[Prepare for Outro]

[Outro]

Not just a shell, but all he knew,
An ocean turned to afterwaste,
Drifting… drifting… nowhere to go,
The last small life in undertow.

[Pause]

The hermit crab lives in an Adderall shell,
(The hermit crab lives in an Adderall shell).
The hermit crab lives in an Adderall shell.