MESHUGGAH (‘Psykisk Testbild’) – 1989
1. CADAVEROUS MASTICATION
Here we are to stay
We all can see the purblind day
Assail the cause
Defray the ogre, the insubordinates
Restrained to live
Bring me home
Confronting mutants
We are bound to fall
Mortality we see today
Defrauds our dreams
Approachable to die
Sliced by their lies, secured morbidity
Restrained to live
Bring me home
Confronting mutants
We are bound to fall
How many of the judges place a bet on me?
What’s there to be?
Moribund irreverence
What’s there for us in this deranged society?
Insanity
Cadaverous mastication
Saturday
They have Saturday
Saturday
Now it’s Saturday
Saturday
They have Saturday
Saturday
Now it’s Saturday
Hwooargh! You are insane!
How can you let there be such cruelty?
You are insane!
Now it’s time for you to see
Here we are to stay
We all can see the purblind day
Assail the cause
Defray the ogre, the insubordinates
Restrained to live
Bring me home
Confronting mutants
We are bound to fall
We are bound to fall
2. SOVEREIGNS MORBIDITY
A stale organic cage. Incarceration
I’m in the stranger: me (Lost in corporeal insanity)
The user of my face: Beneath its guise I rot
A paradox in terms (I am now what I’m not)
Interconnected, fused
My words are its thoughts
I now share my self with my reflection
Straining to divide our twined formation
Duality within singularity
(I’m forlorn in my own withering soul
Racked by continuous waves of dissolution
My gemini mind the creator of the undulation
I strain to untangle these malignant bonds
To become again the one that I was)
Coalescence done, the merging complete
The sentence carried out. (I’m condemned for eternity)
The confluence, our interwound flows
Surges not to be fused. (Now combined, intertwined)
In this mental cage we absorb our selves
The only certainty is my suffering
My mind in constant pleas for an end to this concatenation
A struggle all in vain, we’re both the same
(A withering soul torn by the attempts of regeneration
My gemini mind the obstacle of my redemption
I strain to elude the face of my other self
To become again the one that I was)
Plug me in, reconnect me to my self
Plug me in, reconnect me to my soul
Gone are all my hopes, all my vain illusions
Deceived I dwell in me. In the core of my agony
I fade in this duress. I’m weakening
The one who claimed my front is now the claimant of my soul
(A withering soul torn by this antipolar mental integration
My divided mind a system split in two creations
I strain to reach the separation tools, to be again the one that I was)
Into the core of self, the neuro-axis, I fade
Within the fading core of self I am…
Gone-bound, lost, away, phased out, non-existing
3. DEBT OF NATURE
Here in this dark inferno
Don’t see the light from the sun
Moving in these sewers and alleys
Just wait until the end has come
There is no fucking reason to regret
There is no reason
For you to stay on his side
We die anyway
Here in this dark inferno
Don’t see the light from the sun
Moving in these sewers and alleys
Just wait until the end has come
There is no fucking reason to regret
There is no reason
For you to stay on his side
We die anyway
Is there another way in?
(Hey) the time is here now
(Obey) the war is still being payed
(Hey) the debt of nature
Some people choose to step aside
Pretend they were happy here
Maybe that’s how man intentioned
To die before the same old sin
We are in this dark time
We are still in the young day
Do they fucking realise
We are here to stay
Is there another way in?
(Hey) the time is here now
(Obey) the war is still being payed
(Hey) the debt of nature
Hey, stay with me
Need a break from my mind
Stay with me
I am here
Can we stay here for more
Yeah, stay with me
Get a break from my mind
(Stay with me)
I am here
Can we stay as one (stay)
Look, look, forms aren’t clear
Blood, blood, scattered in your head
Debt, debt, living unsure
Debt, debt, the sigh and roar
Here in this dark inferno
You don’t see the light from the sun
Moving in these sewers and alleys
Just wait until the end has come
There is no fucking reason to regret
There was never a reason
For you to stay on his side
We die anyway
Is there another way in?
(Hey) the time is here now
(Obey) the war is still being payed
(Hey) the debt of nature
Stay with me
Need a break from my mind
Stay with me
I am here
Can we stay here for more
Yeah, stay with me
Get a break from my mind
(Stay with me) I am here
Can you stay
