THE BODY LYRICS

1. I, The Mourner Of Perished Days

O child, sing songs of farewell
Usher this life into earth
no longer a saddened being
no longer a beggars hand
outside they're crying
fear not, for you are with me
unyielding love
turning suffering to ash
do not weep for i am set free
A life squandered
A life redeemed

2. To Attempt Openness

set my death to total isolation
the heart has burned away
never thought to have all the answers
never loved nor learned to accept love
never loved one from the grotesque masses.
nearly alive not yet dead and i am near you
but feel not from the nearness.
to fall apart while others are happy
driving a wedge between pain
and greater pain.
this is pain
this is loss
is this in love?
is this enough?

3. Melt Away

it lay before you in agony
in last throes of death
what is easy?
to need reminding
a bitter turning
we hold in common
only a part of what this work is
melt away
it is already in the dirt

4. An Altar Or A Grave

the thought of life and what is gone
the joy of it and the curse of it
living, what is the difference
dying, the belief in significance

5. Failure To Desire To Communicate

a descent into other worlds
and you unrelenting
and you unwilling
alone and wasting away
through the years and what is coming
you can't move at all
i see this and cannot follow

6. Night Of Blood In A World Without End

we walk in silence
you to glory
I to shame
the pain of living holds no victory
only humiliation

7. Prayers Unanswered

a release for a heart wrecked by hate
desire for outstretched hands that deal
with abstract pain
an answer in every tongue for everything
a blade to kill your enemy
a fire to fill your lonely hovel
a heart to cure your lonely heart
a lack of response
an unheededness
a terrible unknown

8. Denial Of The Species

your belief is your prison
denial of the senses
the pursuit of knowledge
negation of belief
denial of the species

9. Shrouded

adrift in time, to clothe the self
in words and mislead others.
lost, alone, to cloak the self
in faith and mislead only you.
unanchored to shroud the self
in belief and defiance of knowledge.
free of reason

10. Bearer Of Bad Tidings

now to know what's been gotten into
what once hurt is normal now
hobbled and hands are tied
life worthless and devoid of any meaning.
eyes are swollen and closing
hands are ruined
always hungry
heads are hollow
skin hangs loosely
lack of sleep
always watched
pronounced fatigue
no motivation
always wanting
hope has ceased
no spark of life
no joy
total resignation
no sympathy
our curse
all the world is a grave







THE BODY LYRICS