The ashen grey muse commissions a new verse

A song to while away the long sojourn in the hearse

Yet all of us who danse macabre to these dour, dismal tunes

Become cold, grim and hard as the dirt upon the tomb...



In darkened dirges death's knell peals out it's toll

As another cadaver is consigned six feet down to its hole

But ere the last shovel of dirt falls on the wall of the box

We gravely offer a salute to those about to rot...



So lift up your severed heads, in a song for the dead

Life's course ever runs red, so let no lyric remain unsaid

As from our mouths the melody is bled, in a symphony scripted in red

Like rats by the piper we're led, to join in this song for the dead...



[Lead - Mike]



The humor of the gallons never fails to ring true

In this dead, bleak, sick world that we're hung, drawn and quartered though

As each internecine instrument plays its own bloody part

The hammering of coffin nails outpaces the beating of our hearts...



Symphonic surgery orchestrated, a cleaver conducts

The execrable epiphany comes too late, just to reduce us to chunks

Rising up from the sod heaves a gross, putrid breath

As the chorus is joined in this song for the dead...



So lift up your severed heads, in a song for the dead

Life's course ever runs red, so let no lyric remain unsaid

As from our mouths the melody is bled, in a symphony scripted in red

Like rats by the piper we're led, to join in this song for the dead...



[Lead - Matt]



Truncated toccatas deranged - raked across barbed strings and hacked

Eviscerated etudes for the de-brained - plucked upon heartstring stretched

on the rack

Medicinal movements decomposed - Regurgitating oratorios obscene

Forensic fugues and