Released on July 3, 1996

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In the kitchen

With a screaming triple amputee...

Its completion depends solely

On my needs...

Said amputee's stumps

Are my way of saying... "Thank you

Just for being you."

Its fear tastes better than its limbs


Terror of morality

I draw from the slowly dying damned

Monsters live behind my eyes;

I let them out and people die!

And all the grave worms

That come for their piece of meat?

I give them dead things..

The wretched living are mine alone


Fright mounts with the body count

To which anthropomancy predicts a decline

In all of God's creation

Can there be a lifestyle that's better than this?


I mark my territory

With their blood and excritement

And adipocere...

I can find my way in the dark;

My fulfilment is habitually necromanic

And anal abusive..

Seen through the eyes of a mortician

They've "caught" me, as they call it;

My teeth and my semen have betrayed me

Nevermore!

Tests to gauge my rationale

The likes of which these feeble minds have

Never seen


Rorschach blotters

My responses to which inspire fear...

From my lizard side

The amoral alien speaks;

"These aren't butterflies

I see a face I'd like to burn."


Obfuscation

Of the authorities with lies

And my natural

Ability to charm and be me

Or whoever they want;

I've known all minds by divine right

“My teeth and my semen have betrayed me Nevermore!”
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The narrator’s forensic evidence has resulted in their persecution, and the claim that he has been betrayed by this evidence suggests their low willpower overpowers them.

“Anthropomancy”
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Anthropomancy- a method of divination by the entrails of dying men through sacrifice

“Monsters live behind my eyes; I let them out and people die!”
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The narrator announces the feeling that they have an uncontrollable presence in them, causing them to kill indiscriminately.

“The wretched living are mine alone”
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The narrator believes that he possesses humanity, and the fate of their livelihood rests in his hands.

“My fulfilment is habitually necromanic And anal abusive..”
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The narrator claims here that his needs are often sexually oriented and involve the rape of the deceased.

“And all the grave worms That come for their piece of meat? I give them dead things..”
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Even in the process of death, the narrator is still able to provide life to something rather than take it, even though the means by which they have done so is sinister.

“Obfuscation Of the authorities with lies And my natural Ability to charm and be me Or whoever they want;”
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The narrator implies that he is able to talk his way out of imprisonment, although it is not clear whether or not he is released.

“Its fear tastes better than its limbs”
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The murderous nature of the suffering of this being gives the narrator a higher sense of satisfaction than cannibalistically indulging in their body.

“Tests to gauge my rationale The likes of which these feeble minds have Never seen”
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The narrator is subjected to psychological evaluations to determine his mental state. He believes himself to be far above his evaluators in terms of mental ability.

“Said amputee’s stumps Are my way of saying... ”Thank you Just for being you.””
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The narrator passes off the severe mutilation they have carried out on this person as being an act of gratitude rather than anger or lust. Possibly as a means of downplaying the evil of their act.

“I can find my way in the dark;”
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This line may imply that this killer is able to navigate their domicile in complete darkness because they’ve memorized their smeared ‘bio’ locations from the previous line.

“adipocere” here refers to corpse wax, which is the end result of fatty tissue left in a wet environment that lacks oxygen.

Neat!

“Its completion depends solely On my needs...”
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The narrator has homicidal tendencies, which act as the final decider in whether this mutilated person lives or dies.

“Seen through the eyes of a mortician”
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This comment raises the suspicion that the narrator has previous experience in the handling of the deceased and possibly may have the potential to discard any evidence linking to his murders.

“From my lizard side”
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Reference to the narrator’s lizard brain, meaning his behavior is instinctual.

The term “lizard brain” is often used colloquially to refer to the most primitive part of the brain, the brainstem and basal ganglia. It’s associated with instinctual behaviors and basic survival instincts, like fight or flight responses.

“I’ve known all minds by divine right”
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The narrator claims that God has granted him the gift of omniscience in regard to others' psyches

“Rorschach blotters My responses to which inspire fear...”
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The Rorschach test is a psychological test that uses ink blots to record a subjects perceptions. The cannibal is being put through this test, and the perceptions he sees are used to inflict fear on his testers.

“I mark my territory With their blood and excritement And adipocere...”
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The narrator is very territorial over their homicidal acts and strives to keep their victims sacred to them which they do by spreading their decomposing body fluids to make a physical mark of their work

“In all of God’s creation Can there be a lifestyle that’s better than this?”
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The narrator is gleaning the maximum amount of pleasure he deems humanly possible through his actions

“Terror of morality I draw from the slowly dying damned”
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The narrator’s conscience has been plagued by the knowledge of right and wrong, causing them to temporarily retreat from their homicidal activities.