Embodiment

By Carcass

On Heartwork

Released on October 18, 1993

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[Verse 1]

Bow down before your precious icon

Deity of self suppression

This effigy of flesh

Corporeal christi, nailed

In submission to this false idol

Seeking deliverance

From this spiritual hierarchy

Downward spiralling

A corrupt throne

Of repression and guilt


[Pre-Chorus]

Our will be done

Thy kingdom burn


[Verse 2]

On my knees

Before this tormented flesh

In irreverence

In communion with this parasitic host

Of virtuous divinity

This imperious creed bears

Testament to the failures of our mortality

Righteous durance is our cross we

Bear in stations

In stations of the lost


[Pre-Chorus]

Our will be done

Thy kingdom burn

Thy kingdom burn

Our will be done


[Chorus]

From your knees arise

By your own hand

Your god you scribe

The earth shall

Inherit the meek

Your god is dead


[Verse 3]

Bound down in god we're trussed

Foul stature

Icons embodied in flesh we nail

In servitude to deities

Fashioned in our self image

Shadows of eternal strife

Cast by those who serve

A crown of pawns


[Pre-Chorus]

Our will be done

Thy kingdom burn

Thy kingdom burn

Our will be done


[Chorus]

From your knees arise

By your own hand

Your god you scribe

The earth shall

Inherit the meek

Your god is dead