Lyrics (So Passes) The Glory of Death - Exhumed

(So Passes) The Glory of Death

Terminal condition, rampant infection spread too far — leaving many scars
Cadaverous contagion, to necrotize, slash, and mar — blood now black as tar
Repugnant epidemic, deadened hearts beat as one — keeping time with death’s drum
The rotting now systemic, the end at last must come — now the grue starts to run
A global funeral, a worldwide wake
Lay it all to rest, for the worms to take
Experiment that failed, we now must help it die
And let our death knell now decry:
Sic transit gloria mortem
So passes the glory of death
Sic transit gloria mortem
So long unrecognized, dying once disguised as life — on the edge of a knife
But lift the putrid veil, beyond the pale and see the light — existence wrought
with strife
A shattered hope undone, the dead were taught they’d none to serve — a brutal
lesson unlearned
They then enthroned, 'pon their own bones the masters that they deserved — for
a gravesite reserved
A global funeral, a worldwide wake
Lay it all to rest, for the worms to take
Experiment that failed, we now must help it die
And let our death knell now decry:
Sic transit gloria mortem
So passes the glory of death
Sic transit gloria mortem
So passes the glory — of death…
For the glory of death — so many caskets were nailed
For the glory of death — so many bloody banners were hailed
For the glory of death — so many putrefying years
For the glory of death — we present an anthem to fall on dead ears
Sign the death certificate, tag the toe, close the box — and let it rot
Place this vile grotesquery in the vault and turn the lock — and pray it’s
forgot
Misshapen and horrendous, filthy, diseased, and impure — a necrotopia obscure
Better off reduced to ash thus its extinction assured — but bury it deep,
to be sure
A global funeral, a worldwide wake
Lay it all to rest, for the worms to take
Experiment that failed, we now must help it die
And let our death knell now decry:
Sic transit gloria mortem
So passes the glory of death
Sic transit gloria mortem
So passes the glory — of death…