Exhumed - Deathmask Lyrics
A sombre study in an ashen shade of grey, The haunting eyes of the lifelessnot yet rotten, Embalming fluid stave off incursive decay, Chemicals coursethrough passages that life has forgotten, Preservatives bubble and fume shadesof jaundice and amber, Sequestered alone in my embalming chamber, Unknowing,unseeing, and laid spread-eagle on the slab, A lackluster piece of meat Ipolish, scrub, and swab... Meticulously grooming and brushing, clipping withcare, Each detail is attended to as I drag a comb through the hair, I beautifythe blemished face of the deceased, In the hopes that the bereaved will besomewhat at peace... This is my endeavour of dubious merit, My morbidapplication of sleight of hand, A charlatan for the mourning and timid, Atouch up artist for the dead, gone, and bland... To sanitize the ghastlycountenance of death, Whose true rigors are best left unseen, Powders,puffs, and chemicals are all that is left, A corpse made to strut, prance, andpreen... Romanticizing rigor mortis, and death be not vain, Caked with layersof powder, toner, and deceipt, I vomit on the floor at the leering, smilingface, Leaving the deception not yet fully complete... My make-up kit nowcallously discarded, No more use for toners, blushes, and rouge, Extractingthe tools of dissection, Forceps, scalpels, and pins I eagerly peruse... Asanguinary frenzy now ensues, Carving, rending, and generally making a mess,Carbonated embalming fluid foams from vacant eyesockets, Splattering andsullying your sunday best... Ineptly mangled and randomly remade, Taking astab at plastic surgery on human remains, Weaving a wretched, fleshy tapestryof gore, A collage of tongue, skin, blood, sinew, and brain... Your facestricken with total disfiguration, The dignity of death now cruelly erase
