Carcass Surgical Remission / Surplus Steel 1. A Wraith In The Apparatus Little boy cries wolf for he cannot see The emperor's new clothes syndrome This diabolical transparency Transitional seasonal change Come palpate the shame Another reign another dogma Another shibboleth passes away Harmless or nefrarious A gilded new church A false god to worship Blind acceptance with no repentance A jaded new church A false deity to service God save the king Send out succour There's a wraith in the apparatus Long live the king Genuflect before this mammon A false idol to revere A corrupt church of the blind Cathedral of idiocrasy A malfunctioning mechanism A new hymn of praise to sing But I serve only the true monarch God save the king A bewitching ritual to seduce you all Apocryphal church a false god to worship Fallacious disingenuous Lords of the illusional new church Pre fabricated pope to service God save the king Send out succour There's a wraith in the apparatus Long live the king Repent Necessity is the smotherer of all invention God save the king Send out succour There's a wraith in the apparatus God save 2. Intensive Battery Brooding A blue peafowl soaring Silent deadly dormant lied Spreading its plummage Incendiary armed and primed Timer ticking Peafowl rising Awakes from its slumbering state Short fuse smouldering A world of pain to detonate To devastate Scalding concussing Defeathered broiler - foul game Ornate unstable Incubating charged despot of disdain A blue peacock - desolation in its wake A blue peacock - fragmenting laying waste You'd better handle with care now A sleeping mongrel best to lie Controlled atmosphere killing A tactical device that's benign Device ticking Countdown sequenced There is no turning back Time is the true grand leveller Shattering your crystal habitat Scalding concussing Defeathered broiler - foul game Ornate unstable Incubating charged despot of disdain A blue peacock - desolation in its wake A plump blue peacock - fragmenting laying waste A blue peacock - desolation in its wake A blue peacock - about to blow up in your face Intensive poultry battery brooding Critical mass approaching cruelly A numbed ground zero with no shelter Fold before time the true grand leveller Deflagration without warning Over your grave will ride a thousand horses You reap the whirlwind of what you sowed I'll laugh as your world implodes Ha 3. Zochrot You arise - with the whore of Babylon at your side Sicarii - no mercy shown by those whose crucified No mercy shown Barren bloodstained dominion Foundations on the sea of the dead Barren eyes that stared into the pits of Hell The fallacy of the anointed race - A mere diasporadic tribe Misappropriated promised land Searched, destroyed, and occupied You arise - with the whore of Babylon at your side Sicarii - no mercy shown by those who occupied Merciless neoteric Shoah Nazarenes avenged the vaticide Sculpturing the ashes of the six million who died You arise - with the whore of Babylon at your side Sicarii - no mercy shown by those who chose to comply Ensanguined tallit and Magen by design The two rivers run blue - the pigmentation of a corpse Amortize with the whore of Babylon at your side Sicarii - Nakba or Shoah Tell me when exactly did your humanity die? 4. Livestock Marketplace The procreation, the damned Carnal union of the flesh Base primal instincts This murderous passion Coitus corporeal Into holding pens and corrals The livestock herd Baby, you know that you were born to lose. Come immerse yourself in the slaughterhouse blues. Heffers and steers are all there for you to choose. Promiscuous sensuality for we are all whores & prostitutes Life’s a celebration at the cattle market The frigid and recycling death disco Bestial passion at the cattle market On the killing floor Baby, you know that you were born to lose. Come blood yourself in the slaughterhouse blues. Heffers and steers are all there for you to choose. Fiscal sexuality for we are all whores & prostitutes Life’s a celebration at the cattle market The frigid and recycling death disco Bestial passion at the cattle market Life is celebrated at their cattle market The frigid and recycling death disco Animal passion at the cattle market A dance macabre on the killing… Come, let your body fall through the sluice The chilling arousal of the slaughterhouse blues Choice fresh meet is processed, cured and bled Life is a cabaret Where your dancing partner is… Dead Life is celebrated at their cattle market The frigid and recycling death disco Bestial passion at the cattle market Life’s a celebration at the cattle market The frigid and recycling death disco Animal passion at the cattle market A dance macabre on the killing floor 5. 1985 (Reprise) [Instrumental] Jeff Walker — Bass, Vocals Bill Steer — Guitars, Vocals Daniel Wilding — Drums