Medico Legal Psalmody

At the last audit Whence we draw Our sum of guilt In blood-red letters In the purlieus Of the deep The forensic examine That parts That man conceals And disembowel us Until all the blood Had drained From the victim Our entrails are spilled out of Our leathern and bones The silver sickle doing The honors of the house The skill of the doctors When the curtain fell on the last act The organic symphony stopped On the scene of the crime The scalpel scraping Carve a furrow broad in our flesh Marking the last Signet The medico-legal psalmody began We said our last farewells Our career is done And we sink back into The bowels of the world The horde of desperate men Become completely cut off From his environment Living there very quietly In their glass coffins In a self perpetuating World of illusion While they are awaiting Their turn to crumble Into their native dust The horde of desperate men Become completely cut off From his environment Living there very quietly In their glass coffins In a self perpetuating World of illusion While they are awaiting Their turn to crumble Into their native dust Empty words promised impossibilities And performed nothing Engendered by the fear of some And the ignorance of all But everything perish Including us The rain drenches our bones To the sound of the trumpet of the angel of death At the last audit Whence we draw Our sum of guilt In blood-red letters In the purlieus Of the deep The forensic examine That parts That man conceals And disembowel us Until all the blood Had drained From the victim Our entrails are spilled out of Our leathern and bones The silver sickle doing The honors of the house The skill of the doctors When the curtain fell on the last act The organic symphony stopped On the scene of the crime The scalpel scraping Carve a furrow broad in our flesh Marking the last Signet The medico-legal psalmody began We said our last farewells Our career is done And we sink back into The bowels of the world As it was in the beginning Os now and ever shall be World without end A cosmic view of humanity From a dying sun Torn to shreds by time Despite the innumerable hosts Of lives that had gone to build This human reef A desperate attempt To escape From the chase of Time But the death Of the human race Is at hand