Lyrics
Life made to imitate art
Life is portrayed to imitate artistic expression.
Disfigured features re-sected upon being torn apart
Facial features are mutilated and rearranged after being torn apart.
My cubist rhinoplasty has left you defaced
The narrator underwent a cubist rhinoplasty, resulting in the disfigurement of another person.
Any semblance of dignity erased and replaced
Any remaining dignity is removed and replaced with a distorted appearance.
The face of death staring at you is only your own
Confronted by the face of death, one sees only their own reflection.
Distorted and twisted to form
The subject's appearance is altered, twisted, and distorted.
The medium of meat, tendon, sinew and bone
The composition of the transformed face includes meat, tendon, sinew, and bone.
Distorted and twisted to form
The distorted form is created from the medium of flesh and bone.
Eye-sockets rerouted, now to re-wire your shattered jaw
Eye-sockets are rerouted, and a shattered jaw is rewired.
Aesthetic mutilation leaves facial tissue red raw
Aesthetic mutilation leaves the facial tissue severely damaged and raw.
Gouged, cleft and hacked, now you're drastically deformed
The subject is gouged, cleft, and hacked, resulting in drastic deformity.
Through your grisly countenance, as an objet d'art you are reborn
Despite the gruesome changes, the altered countenance is considered a work of art.
The face of death staring at you is only your own
Confronted by the face of death, one sees only their own reflection (repeated).
Distorted and twisted to form
The subject's appearance is distorted and twisted to form (repeated).
The medium of meat, tendon, sinew and bone
The composition of the transformed face includes meat, tendon, sinew, and bone (repeated).
Distorted and twisted to form
The distorted form is created from the medium of flesh and bone (repeated).
Sightless eyes - gaze vacantly at the monstrous face in the reflection
Sightless eyes stare vacantly at the monstrous face in the reflection.
Chiaroscuro realized - Obscure art incarnated through unnatural selection
Chiaroscuro, an artistic technique, is manifested through unnatural selection, creating obscure art.
Disintegrating death masque - leering features rearranged disgustingly askew
The death mask disintegrates, and leering features are rearranged disgustingly askew.
The work of a hack - your visage gleams with the moist sheen of sanguine and sinew
The altered visage reflects the work of a hack, gleaming with the moist sheen of blood and sinew.
The face of death staring at you is only your own
Confronted by the face of death, one sees only their own reflection (repeated).
Distorted and twisted to form
The subject's appearance is distorted and twisted to form (repeated).
The medium of meat, tendon, sinew and bone
The composition of the transformed face includes meat, tendon, sinew, and bone (repeated).
Distorted and twisted to form
The distorted form is created from the medium of flesh and bone (repeated).
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