Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Anatomy Is Destiny , by - Exhumed. Song from the album Anatomy Is Destiny / Live In Japan, in the genre Release date: 22.07.2003
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Relapse
Anatomy Is Destiny |
| In my waxen world, time stands still |
| Forever frozen like flies trapped in amber |
| One perfect moment preserved, just ere the kill |
| Gruesome atrocities transfixed in horror’s chamber |
| Poetry without motion, figures stranded midstream |
| Waxen players in this dark drama of the macabre |
| Mouths agape with terror but breathless to scream |
| No death rattle heard, nor parting sors… |
| I am preserver of life through my morbid art |
| For each mannequin was truly alive from the start |
| So if the eyes seem to follow your gaze as you gawk |
| Know that in the eyes of the dead, in their shadow you walk… |
| Cadavers molded in wax as their lives buried away |
| More preening puppets to perform in the scenes that I play |
| Features cast in the moment of dying preserved |
| How they screamed as they met with their fates well deserved… |
| WAXWORK |
| Recreating the horror of the moment of death |
| My models serve their purpose quite well |
| Embalm their bodies in wax, capture their dying breath |
| Drain the fluids to stave off the smell |
| Like dolls that dance to their own funeral dirge |
| They play out their death scenes interminably |
| As prized their exhibits in my dark reserve |
| They unfold their secrets only to me |
| Life eternal in wax was their death’s decree |
| Suffering for my art, they surrendered to me |
| So when their eyes lock with your gaze |
| Look unflinchingly at death or turn away fast… |
| Skin blistered and softened as it was coated and sealed away |
| Another preserved puppet to prance on the strings that I play |
| The fear ensnared in their captive countenances I’ve trapped |
| Mummified and memorialised in wax well-woven and wrapped… |
| WAXWORK |
| So sit still in your place at the end of the blade |
| By my design, death’s hand find you just out of reach |
| Another player in this deathly silent world that I have made |
| Devoid of sound, fury or motion, sense, movement or speech |
| Awaiting a terminus that never will come |
| You’re a marionette bound by my strings |
| Trussed in this tomb of wax, your time here is not done |
| For time does not quite end all things… |
| This is my life’s work, this still, silent place |
| A monument to the fear frozen in a cold, waxen face |
| Take care not to stare into their eyes, whatever you do |
| When you look deep into death, it sees back into you too… |
| Flesh bubbled and scalded, as this molten bath washed life away |
| Wax covered my still-screaming prey |
| Another piece for my prizing, recast in my mold |
| Features harden and set as the wax grows stiff and cold… |
| WAXWORK |
| Pernicious — A ghastly Gordian quandary to elucidate |
| Pestiferous — A nebulous necrotic novelty to navigate |
| Labyrinthine — A contumely carnal conundrum to cogitate |
| Serpentine — An exulcerated entanglement to execrate… |
| Hands stained and filthy from digging deep for the answer |
| That lies at the heart of the matter of splatter… |
| Eschatological — The grave matters with which we struggle |
| Pathological — The perverse perpetuation of this purulent puzzle |
| Repugnant — The wretched riddle unravels in a reeking revelation |
| Repulsive — The final fetid farce yields such a rancid realization |
| Now your morbid curiosity may finally be answered |
| Deep in the heart of the matter of splatter… |
| A morbid matter on which to meditate or mutilate |
| A deathly detail to deliberate and desiccate |
| A sombre study in which sagacity is tantamount to insanity |
| An insalubrious interest in the inhumed and the unsanitary… |
| An unhealthy pursuit of the purulent and parturient |
| A feculent fixation upon the fetid filth and excrement |
| An exhaustive examination of the excreted and the exhumed |
| A tireless appetite to hill the silt atop the tomb… |
| Nebulous — The sanguineous solution is seldom seen before the last |
| Amorphous — Seemingly always six deep feet beyond your grasp |
| Funereal — Carnal cartography to chart the course of life’s denouement |
| Corporeal — The wretched revelation that you sought proves harder to swallow |
| Than you’d thought… |
| That anatomy is destiny is the unforgiving answer |
| Culled from the heart of the matter of splatter… |
| Scalpels cleave and reave though crimson rivulets |
| Weaving their cold and malignant minuets |
| Carving out funereal figures in arcane alphabets |
| Scars that will never heal or forget… |
| Like puzzle pieces, set askew, you’ve come undone |
| The bleeding is ceaseless, you’re turning blue, the end had begun |
| Set down in writing, flesh, blood and bone, let death be done |
| The pen is as mighty as the sword, sticks or stones, your end would be cast |
| In stone, by either one… |
| Tenderly thanatographical threads are tread and traced |
| Boiling blood will serve to warm this cold clinical embrace |
| A clean precise cut to mark this morbid meeting place |
| This knife — point where you and death came face to face… |
| The slab starts to spin around and around, as I take your hand in mine |
| We move step by step within, without so much as a sound, death’s dark design |
| In time |
| A slice to the left, then cut back to the right, movements scripted in this |
| Dance of the dead |
| Motions so deft, recalled by touch not by sight, footprints encrypted by |
| Blood running red… |
| A pirouette on razor’s edge leaves you breathless |
| The slab plays host to an incisive macabre ballet |
| A savage, slicing slaughter of the senses |
| Now splayed… |
| UNDER THE KNIFE — your death hangs in the balance, on the edge of the blade |
| REMEMBER EVERY SLICE — of this jigsawed demise, and every part that I payed |
| COLD STEEL BURNS LIKE ICE — leaves you dancing on nothing, loosed by |
| Unsteady hands |
| UNDER THE KNIFE — The caress of steel, just before the end… |
| Just before the end… |
| A bleeding patchwork design, in running scarlet writ |
| Connected wounds intersecting from slit to bloody slit |
| Such a tangled web of shreds and scars I’ve knit |
| The liquid of life, leaks out through the red at your wrists… |
| May I have this last dance? As I take your last breath |
| With a final flick of my wrist |
| UNDER THE KNIFE — your death hangs in the balance, on the edge of the blade |
| REMEMBER EVERY SLICE — of this jigsawed demise, and every part that I payed |
| COLD STEEL BURNS LIKE ICE — leaves you dancing on nothing, loosed by |
| Unsteady hands |
| UNDER THE KNIFE — The caress of steel, just before the end… |
| Your dry throat creaks without a saliva to sputter |
| As your pulpy dehydrated tongue soundlessly threshes |
| Days without sustenance spent shackled and fettered |
| Emaciated torso aches for the warm taste of flesh… |
| I will make a meal of you, your hunger I’ll sate |
| Saw off your leg at the knee to put on your dinner plate |
| Try not to wince at the pain that you feel |
| As I mince up your calf to prepare your next meal… |
| Cauterise the gargled wound to stave off the haemorrhage |
| You should savor the thought of your repast |
| Choke down this bitter meal in spite of your revulsion |
| Though how long can your source of food last? |
| Keeping yourself alive as you’re force-fed your own flesh |
| If you don’t eat up, you’re truly dead meat |
| Legs turned to stumps, bloody drinks gargled in clumps |
| In this case you really are what you eat… |
| AUTOPHAGOUS GLUTTONY |
| CULINARY PATHOLOGY |
| DIETARY BUTCHERY |
| CONSUMING IMPULSE |
| Ingest your corpse to be… |
| Quadriplegic you feed as your dinner is served |
| Waste not; want not, though there’s not much to conserve |
| Severed and severely served upon a platter of splatter |
| After a while the source of the sustenance barely even matters… |
| Now a half-eaten torso gorged to the glut |
| Piece by piece you are fed the chicest cuts |
| As the dinner-bell rings your bloody chops are feverishly licked |
| At the sight of your own roasted fat turned and browned on a spit… |
| Your own meat in your mouth tastes bitter and internecine |
| Noxious and moist, you get a taste of your own medicine |
| Gnashing, pieces of your limbs with delight |
| Digesting your death with each grotesque bloody bite |
| What’s eating you? The question seems to moot |
| Scraping chunks of your feet out of your blood-soaked sopping boot |
| Bash open bones picked clean to suckle at the marrow |
| As your culinary milieu of options inexorably narrows… |
| AUTOPHAGOUS GLUTTONY |
| CULINARY PATHOLOGY |
| DIETARY BUTCHERY |
| CONSUMING IMPULSE |
| Ingest your corpse to be… |
| Feeding time comes again, the thorax falls victim to this slaughter |
| Blood, pus and sebum replace wine, whiskey and water |
| Sometimes survival will cost you an arm and a leg |
| Your spittle running, red with bits of reeking bloody dregs… |
| Masticate your own genitals, choke on your bludgeoned testicles |
| With a hunger that will not be denied |
| The sweetest of meats is your soft, fatty teats |
| That I’ll be stuffing your face with tonight |
| Puking up your own skin, just to devour it again |
| Is a treat you’ll save for dessert |
| Fresh meat for your lunch, fibula cracked, drained and crunched |
| As your overstuffed gullet gasps and blurts… |
| Your crudely resected anatomy is a wretched grisly sight |
| But your stumps once arms just whet your appetite |
| Nibbling at the sinews of your bloody forearms and wrists |
| Ravenously devouring your shredded survival in fleshly chunks and meaty |
| Bits… |
| Eviscerate yourself to gnaw at your own intestines |
| Bones from severed fingers facilitate this haphazard self-dissection |
| Clutch at grume inside your bowels with half-eaten grubby stumps |
| Pulling out the repugnant meal in grotesque tumescent clumps… |
| Remaining fingers prying off your succulent gouged out gums |
| Gnaw at your stringy cheek lining and masticate your insatiable tongue |
| But the pieces you ingest in carnivorous abandon |
| Fall out of the gaping that you have torn in your intestines |
| Gnash the meat from your avulsed face in a frenzied rush |
| No genitals, no feet, no legs, no appendage left uncrushed |
| Half-eaten tongue oozes spittle down your face — your hunger undiminished |
| Only when your partially devoured innards prolapse will this meal at last be |
| Finished |
| AUTOPHAGOUS GLUTTONY |
| CULINARY PATHOLOGY |
| DIETARY BUTCHERY |
| CONSUMING IMPULSE |
| Excrete your corpse to be… |
| All the world’s indeed a corpse, and we are merely maggots |
| Dead on arrival is our only course, and if the toe fits, tag it |
| Sycophants, we’re writhing blind, feeding off each others' regurgitation |
| Disgorging whatever waste we find, breeding our degradation with each |
| Exhalation… |
| Lambs to the slaughter |
| Feast of fools upon the fodder |
| No trompe l’oreil to behold |
| Just a wretched drama to unfold… |
| Gnarled within this mortal coil |
| Within which the voracious feebly toil |
| Enamored of our own disease |
| We revel in our own grotesqueries… |
| Dissecting ourselves to find nothing alive |
| Just a mass of perversely animated pieces |
| Nothing within worthwhile to revive |
| We’re mired knee-deep in our own fetid feces |
| Gorging our gnawing jaws with our own pathological waste |
| Like grubs wriggling in the rank feast of decay |
| We grind our own bones into dust each futile step we take |
| As we inch unseeing through day after day… |
| Consumer or consumed |
| We all end up as chyme and grume |
| Upon the fetid mass we choke |
| Leaving us in no position to appreciate the sick joke… |
| Twisted through this mortal coil |
| Now our unctuous desserts are brought to a boil |
| Somewhere between the living and the deceased |
| We gag on the feast of our grotesqueries… |
| Too consumed by consumption to see our own ends |
| We’re all dead and only getting deader |
| Digging our own graves into which we gladly descend |
| In this cold coil we’re shackled and fettered |
| As we ingest each others' waste, in a frenzied feeding rush |
| Leaving everything sick and dead in our wake |
| Devouring each other in ravening, unheeding crush |
| As we gorge ourselves on all the tripe and offal we can intake… |
| Crass menagerie |
| Eschatological estuary |
| We create each others' atrocities |
| In this grotesquery |
| Asphyxiated by this mortal coil |
| Reaping rancid fruits long since despoiled |
| Until our depraved lives at last surcease |
| We’ll hunger for more grotesqueries… |