Sickened - Exhumed



The first ripening pustule - reared its black head today

A mephitic harbinger - of inexorable decay

Carbuncles and buboes - weeping welts to ensue

Blood bears infection - as it courses through

In sickness as in health - sickened by the sight

Of myself in the mirror - cowering from the light

Sickened in heart and mind - bowed beneath this blight

Flesh suppurates - blood drains to white



Once infected death's grip seizes through my veins

Blackening sores erupt, fever boils through my brains



A contagious affliction, sputum expectorates red

Sickened unto the grave

As epidermal revulsion marks me as soon to be dead

Sickened unto the grave

Sickened - unto the grave



My family and neighbors - come shun my face

For fear of infection - I'll be left to my fate

Writhing in dejection - in an abhorrent state

My blood drains to white - sickened unto the grave

The pustules rupture - a foul, fetid spew

Swollen piles leaking - infectious, discolored grue

My shocking reflection - I no longer recognize

As I succumb to decay - before my festered eyes



The only solace I find is that as the contagion spreads

I'll be joined by you all amongst the numberless dead



A contagious affliction, sputum expectorates red

Sickened unto the grave

As epidermal revulsion marks me as soon to be dead

Sickened unto the grave

Sickened - unto the grave



Life looms somewhere forgotten in a feverish haze

As my extremities contort beneath my gore-grizzled gaze

Waking hours turned to nightmare as my senses decay

And my blood drains to white, sickened unto the grave



There's a ripening reek that emanates from my crotch

And I dare not speak the horrid shade of the blotch

That marks my face as one soon to be at death's door

As I now become totally rotten to the gore - totally rotten to the gore



[Lead - Bud]

[Lead - Matt]

[Lead - Bud]



As my bowels liquefy and my skin sloughs away

Sickened unto the grave

I welcome the cold comfort of death's black embrace

Sickened unto the grave

Sickened - unto the grave



[Lead - Matt]