(So Passes) The Glory of Death - Exhumed

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…