The ashen grey [bad word] a new verse
song to while away the long sojourn in the hearse
Yet all of us who danse macabre to these dour, dismal tunes
 [bad word] 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 [bad word] 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 [bad word] 
In this dead, bleak, sick world that we're hung, drawn and quartered though
As each internecine [bad word] plays its own bloody part
The hammering of coffin nails outpaces the beating of our hearts...

Symphonic surgery orchestrated, a cleaver conducts
The execrable [bad word] too late, just to reduce us to chunks
Rising up from the sod heaves a gross, putrid breath
As the [bad word] is joined in this song for the dead...

So lift up your severed heads, in a song for the dead
Life's course [bad word] 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]

 [bad word] toccatas deranged - raked across barbed strings and hacked
Eviscerated etudes for the de-brained - plucked upon heartstring stretched 
on the rack
Medicinal movements [bad word] - Regurgitating oratorios obscene
Forensic fugues and de-boned - Mutilating the melody's method and means...

The crepitated coda dies in mid-refrain
As the sheet-music is obscured by a sanguine scarlet stain
Shattered stave lodged in your split-open splattered brain
 [bad word] meter falters as the bow is fretted once again...

Acrid arias are screeched
The bloated thorax is breached
Abrading viscera with bleach
Grotesquely gavage the deceased...

[Lead - Matt]

Cleaving the clef
Broken notes bleed into a mess
Falling on ears so deaf
So it ever is in death...

Carbonized cantatas [bad word] - ringing out, sewing seeds of dischord and 
dismay
Suppurated sonatas [bad word] - [bad word] pizzicatos slicing every which way
The [bad word] cadence is sundered - Bloody scraps of sheet music 
unintellibly scrawled
Threnodies resonate six feet under - To where all life's fractured melodies 
will finally resolve...

The symphonic slaughter's swells without restraint
As the cacophonous cadenza splits your [bad word] clean in twain
The repugnant orchestra pit an abattoir of death and pain
The hatchet falls in sharp staccato until everyone is slain...