ENCOFFINATION LYRICS

1. Sacrum Profanum Processionali

[Instrumental]

2. Rites Of Ceremonial Embalm’Ment

Prepare the flesh for inhumation
The body is weak, to be whole again
Upon the pale divine the death is whole
Limbs are gnarled and frail, extend thy hand to receive thy poison
Prepare the ritual incision
Lift the vessels of life, blood follows the poisons of man

Injection of the communal fluids... the flesh is bleak and poised to exist again
Massage the limbs of the newly dead; distribution of the divine poison
The body is poised in reverence, devoid of spirit, soul, or life
A fleshen offering to the god of death

3. Ritual Until Blood

Ritual for blood
Ceremony of sanguine offering
Bloodletting of the sacred vein
Massage the flesh of pestilence
Amid blackness enshroud

Rites of sanguine communion
Ritual until blood is spilled
Flood the temple of sofmatic preparation

4. Elegant In Their Funebrial Cloaks, Arisen

They gather as a commune of ritual
Shrouded in cloaks of blackest putrescence
Preparation of the mass of unholy burial
Chanting as one, guide the newfound death

Their crypt-born voices fill the tombs with the songs of death
Wretch the hymns of their requiem
Arise with their song and they eulogize the coming of ends
Elegant in their blackest formality, arisen

5. Crypt Of His Communal Devourment

Below the stones aligned for sacrifice,
Beyond the pillars of grief-stricken facades,
Upon ashen temples lieth his flesh
Mass of burial for the holy shroud,
Mass of devourment of his body and blood

Into the earth among the dead
Into the body among the waste
His communal ingestion,
Devoured and passed as the filth into fire

6. Washed And Buried

Laid before the temple floor
Upon the altar of ritual cleansing
Prayers before the ceremony of burial
Bathed in the liquid of fevered death
Wash away the filth of humanity

One last repose before given to the earth
A final entitlement of life's virtue
Spared of the anatomist blade

Upon twilight thy death is given to the ground
Washed and buried before sundown on the day of death
To the earth swalloweth the dead, to the dead, rest of æternity,
Untouched by the tools of man

7. Pall Of Unrequited Blood

Beyond earthly existence
Below the entombed arches of marbled divinity
Crypts of blackened oblivion beckon
Shrouded by the pall of unrequited blood
A fevered burial guard of gnashing teeth and deathly furor

Descend the black stair to the hallways of your own forsaken interment

8. Annunciation Of The Viscera

A cadaverous illumination upon the stone
Anointest thy brow with the viscera, holy; sacred
Temples enshrouded with the flesh of death,
Communes flooded with the entrails of life

Hold thy organs as an offering of blood, extended to the congregation

Holy; sacred

A filthy chalice filled with the anointed offal,
Pourest out thy offering back to from which it came
Suture the unholy shell with the ligature of dead angels







ENCOFFINATION LYRICS