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Dropping, smashing, breaking
Lift the wheel, drop the wheel, break the bone against the stone
One more time
Shards of bone break the skin, the skin is thin against the shin
The breaking wheel
Painful slow death
The throbbing pain
Three days to die, nailed to the wheel
The breaking wheel
Labored slow breath
Thirsting parched throat
Crow perched on your chest, plucks out your eyes
Blackened, fractured, splintered
Place the arm between the spokes, snapped in two, turning blue
Bludgeoning
Femurs cracks, tendons snap, elastic crack
The breaking wheel
Painful slow death
The throbbing pain
Three days to die, nailed to the wheel
The breaking wheel
Labored slow breath
Thirsting parched throat
Crow perched on your chest, plucks out your eyes
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Écorché - The Cross
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Roman justice is efficient not quick, cold, cruel and wonderfully sick
The flagrum should do the trick, every breath brings excruciating pain
The lictors arrive with the scorpion whip, jagged sheep bone attached to every tip
A flick of the wrist causes my flesh to rip, every breath brings excruciating pain
Collapsed on the ground the whipping complete, tied to the cross bar I lay in the street
Roughly I’m grabbed and forced to my feet, every breath brings excruciating pain
Dragging a cross of cedar, cypress and pine, on my scourged back there isn’t much time
Till I’m nailed to this thing that’s breaking my spine, every breath brings excruciating pain
[refrain during verses: The whip pierces flesh The whip pierces nerve The whip ends your fight
The spike pierces flesh The spike pierces nerve The spike holds you tight
The cross takes your breath The cross is slow death The cross is the State
The spear punctures skin The spear punctures heart The spear seals your fate]
Thrown to the ground to drive dirt in my cuts, the cross is assembled by sweaty grunts
My torture continued by these Roman cunts, every breath brings excruciating pain
Seven inch spikes put through my wrist, to nail my feet, my legs they twist
My hands contort into claw like fists, every breath brings excruciating pain
The sign above my skull, it states my crime, citizens gaze upon me like I am swine
Given a bitter drink of myrrh and wine, every breath brings excruciating pain
Unable to breath I quickly tire, pain shoots through my arms like fire
Not long now until I expire, every breath brings excruciating pain
Nailed to the cross
A nameless slave
Nailed to the cross
A mirthless knave
My heart is pierced
By six foot spear
Left here to rot
Missed I am not
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Écorché - The Rack
08:01
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The Cathar priest, Heresy speaks, For his crimes burn, burn, burn, burn
Cursed Witch, Fever pitch, To fear God learn, learn, learn, learn
The sinful Turk, In shadows lurk, Into the Light burned, burned, burned, burned
The ex-Jew, Is this true? Salvation (is) earned, earned, earned, earned
On the rack, feet are tied
On the rack, hands are tied
On the rack, body stretched
On the rack, sinful wretch
On the rack, feet are scorched
On the rack, arms are torched
Pardoned by God, given free reign
To torture at will, hand chosen to maim and kill
Inquisitor Dominicans, Doing God’s work
800 years of Hell…Hell on Earth, sanctioned from above
A ‘better’ world through the cleansing power of the Lord’s ‘love’
The Cathar priest, Heresy speaks, For his crimes burn, burn, burn, burn
Cursed Witch, Fever pitch, To fear God learn, learn, learn, learn
The sinful Turk, In shadows lurk, Into the Light burned, burned, burned, burned
The ex-Jew, Is this true? Salvation (is) earned, earned, earned, earned
On the rack, tongue is pinched
On the rack, nails are splinched
On the rack, in dungeon dank
On the rack, one more crank
On the rack, Torturer grins
On the rack, Church always wins
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