Playing With Dead Things

by Écorché

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1.	Playing With Dead Things 08:26	lyrics	buy track
Playing with Dead Things Playing with dead things Whatever the night brings Up from the cold ground Lost once but now found Playing with dead things Flaying while he sings He goes through great pains Wax injected blue veins Spades in hand we hit the dirt With muddy knees and soiled shirt Black earth beneath our nails And within our wooden pails Who were you in life my friend? How did you meet your end? Stabbed or hanged or slipped? Beaten choked or whipped? Playing with dead things Whatever the night brings Up from the cold ground Lost once but now found Playing with dead things Flaying while he sings He goes through great pains Wax injected blue veins Matters not to our Master Could be whore or saintly pastor It matters not when you’re dead And skin’s peeled back from the head Pinning back the livid skin To reveal sinews within Sculpting with bone and tissues Wasted corpse given new use
2.	Resurrecting A Corpse 04:58	lyrics	buy track
RESURRECTING A CORPSE STANDING NAKED BEFORE THE LOOKING GLASS HE EXAMINES HIS OWN DECAYING FORM “EVERY DAY ON THIS EARTH IS ONE DAY CLOSER TO DEATH” MAISON-ALFORT IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1762 A NEW DIRECTOR IS APPOINTED TO THE NATIONAL VETERINARY SCHOOL A CHARMNG YOUNG MAN WITH DASHING GOOD LOOKS AND A PIERCING GAZE THAT WOMEN CAN’T IGNORE “HOW QUICKLY BEAUTY FADES” HE REMARKS AS HE INCISES WITH HIS SCALPEL LOCKED AWAY IN A ROOM FAR FROM PRYING EYES HE’S SURROUNDED BY HUMAN SPECIMENS PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES PRACTICED ON HORSES AND NOW PERFECTED ON HUMAN CADAVERS “GOOD MORNING JEAN-MARIE, AND HOW ARE YOU TODAY?” HE ASKS QUIZZICALLY OF THE DEAD MAN IN HIS DIARY HE WRITES “DEAD ONE MONTH TO THE DAY AND THE BODY SHOWS NO SIGNS OF DECAY” “DEAD ONE MONTH TO THE DAY AND THE BODY SHOWS NO SIGNS OF DECAY. NO ODORS, NO BLOATING, NO DECOMPOSITION.” HE EXAMINES THE EXCISED PIECE OF SKIN BENEATH HIS MICROSCOPE “EVEN AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL THERE IS NO SIGN OF DECAY.” “THE CELLS ARE STILL PLIABLE AND FULL OF LIQUID. I HAVE MANAGED TO ACHIEVE PRESERVATION OF THE FLESH WITHOUT THE USE OF DESICATING SALTS.” “I BELIEVE THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME TO INJECT THE SOLUTION INTO A LIVING, BREATHING SPECIMEN.” HE WALKS ACROSS THE ROOM TOWARD THE MONKEY DYING IN ITS CAGE WATCHING AS THE SIMIAN’S BREATH AND HEARTRATE SLOW, NOW IS THE TIME HE PLUNGES THE SYRINGE DEEP INTO ITS ARM WITHIN A SECOND THE LIQUID FINDS THE HEART “WITHIN SECONDS ITS BREATHING AND HEART RATE RETURN TO NORMAL FUNCTION.” “ITS COAT BECOMES MORE LUSTROUS, WITHERED MUSCLES PULSE WITH NEW STRENGTH.” “OLD YELLOWED TEETH, NOW SHARPENED AND GLEAMING, A BRILLIANT WHITE.” “ALERTNESS SHINES IN ITS BRIGHT EYES. EYES ONCE DEAD BUT NOW ALIVE.” THE VETERINARIAN SMILES TIGHT LIPPED “AT LAST IT’S TIME FOR ME TO TAKE THE MEDICINE.”
3.	Cursed To A Life Eternal 06:49	lyrics	buy track
CURSED TO A LIFE ETERNAL CURSED TO BE ALIVE THIS UNENDING AGONY CURSED TO WALK THIS EARTH IN AN ENDLESS TWILIGHT THIS BODY WILL NOT DIE THIS MIND IS GOING INSANE THESE CELLS GO ON LIVING WHILE THE WORLD ROTS EVERYTHING WE ONCE LOVED HAS NOW TURNED TO DUST THE FOOD TURNS TO ASHES AND STICKS IN OUR THROATS CURSED TO A LIFE ETERNAL THOUGH WE TRY TO DIE WE GO ON LIVING A JOYLESS IMITATION OF LIFE IT’S BEEN TWO CENTURIES SINCE WE DRANK THE DRINK THAT STOPPED OUR BODIES AGING AND OUR CELLS DECAYING AT FIRST WE WERE GRATEFUL OH FATHER FRAGONARD SO GREEDILY WE DRANK UP WHAT YOU OFFERED US LITTLE DID WE REALIZE THE PRICE WE’D HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS LIFE ETERNAL ALL JOY WE GAVE AWAY CURSED TO A LIFE ETERNAL THOUGH WE TRY TO DIE WE GO ON LIVING A JOYLESS IMITATION OF LIFE