Heartwork

@BAND: CARCASS
@ALBUM: HEARWORK

1. BURIED DREAMS 3:59
2. CARNAL FORGE 5:55
3. NO LOVE LOST 3:23
4. HEARTWORK 4:33
5. EMBODIMENT 5:37
6. THIS MORTAL COIL 3:50
7. ARBEIT MACHT FLEISCH 4:22
8. BLIND BLEEDING THE BLIND 4:56
9. DOCTRINAL EXPLETIVES 3:39
10. DEATH CERTIFICATE 3:36

Total playing time : 41:57
İ93 Earache Records
Produced by Colin Richardson

Carcass are :
Bill Steer - Lead Guitar
Ken Owen - Drums
Jeff Walker - Bass and Vocals
Michael Amott - Lead guitar

All titles by Carcass
All songs by copyright control Carcass




Recorded and mixed at Parr Street Studios between May 18th - June 21st 1993.
Produced by Colin Richardson
Engineered by Keith Andrews
Assistant engineers - Dave Buchanan and Andrea Wright

Front album sculpture ³Preserve Life² copyright H.R. Giger 1993
Used by kind permission.

Design by Andrew Tuoby

Management and merchandise
Martia Nesbitt/Point Blank Management
P.O. Box 210,
South P.D.O.
Notthingham NH2 2EL
U.K.
Fax (0602) 524 784

Thanks to H.R. Giger, Simon Alexander at Marshall UK/US, Phil Boot Guitars, Ibanez UK, Aria UK, Arbiter Group Plc, Rotosound UK, John Henryıs, all the bands we have toured with, crews, all our families, friends and friends in the press
(No names... you know who you are)

Typin' job done by Pierre-Jean Fontaine. July 31 1995.
I havenıt an Internet address, but you can write to me at :
Pierre-Jean Fontaine
Avenue Bel Horizon 48
B-1341 Ottignies
Belgium


@SONG: BURIED DREAMS
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Steer)

Welcome, to a world of hate,
A life of buried dreams,
Smothered, by the soils of fate,
Welcome, to a world of pain,
Bitterness your only wealth,
The sands of time kicked in your face,
Rubbed in your face,

When aspirations are squashed,
When lifeıs chances are lost,
When all hope is gone,
When expectations are quashed,
When self esteem is lost,
When ambition is mourned,
... All you need is hate

1st lead - Steer
2nd lead - Amott

@SONG: CARNAL FORGE
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Steer/Amott)

Multifarious carnage,
Meretriclously internecine,
sublime enmangling steelbath,
Of escheated atrocities,

Enigmatic longanimity of ruminent mass graves,
Meritorious victory, into body-bags now scraped...

Regnant fleshpiles,
The dead regorged,
Oscularoty majestic wrath,
This carnal forge.

Desentisised - to perspicuous horror,
Dehumanized - fresh cannon fodder...

(Lead - Steer)

Meritorious horror,
Perspicuous onslaught,
Dehumanized - cannon fodder,.

Killing santised,
Slaughter scantified,
Desentised - to genocide
Reigning corpsepiles,
Death regorged.

Sousing bloodbath,
Carnage forged...

In the cold, callous dignity of the mass grave...

(Lead - Amott)

Multiferocious carnage,
Cruel, mendacious creed,
Sublime, murderous bloodbath,
Of fiscal atrocities.

Inexorable mettle in redolent consommé
An opprobious crucible of molten human waste...

Priapismic deathpiles,
Infinitely regorged,
The smelting butchery,
Of the carnal forge.

Desentised - to pragmatic murder,
Dehumanized - into cannon fodder...

@SONG: NO LOVE LOST
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Steer)

Sensual awakening,
Numbing feelingıs dead,
Conceptionıs romanticised,
Synthetized broken heartıs to bled,

Without emotion, your heartstringıs played,
Strummed and severed to the tune of a tragic serenade,
(A tragic chorus,)
Without emotion, your hearstrings break,
Snapped and severed to the tune of a tragic, sad-cliché.

No love lost,
When all is said and done,
Thereıs no love lost.

The low cost of loving,
Amorous travesty,
Human frailties and weakness are easy prey,
How your poor heart will bleed.

(1st lead - Amott)
(2nd lead - Steer)

@SONG: HEARTWORK
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Steer/Amott)

(Lead - Steer)

Works of art, painted black,
Magniloquent, bleeding dark,
Monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited,
Food for thought, so prolific
In constrasting shades, forcely fed,
Abstraction, so choking, so provocative.

A canvas to paint, to degenerate,
Dark reflections-degeneration,
A canvas to paint, to denigrate,
Dark reflections, of dark foul light.

Profound, aesthetic beauty,
Or shaded, sensary corruption,
Perceptions, shattered, splintered, mirroring.
In deft taints, diluted, tinted.
Spelt out, in impaired colour,
Denigrating, going to paints to pain - not a pretty picture.

Works of heart bleeding dark,
Black, magniloquent art,
Monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited,
Prolific food for thought,
Constrating, fed with force,
Abstraction, so choking, so provocative.

Bleeding works of art,
Seething work so dark,
Seering words from the heart.

(1st lead - Steer)
(2nd lead - Amott)

@SONG: EMBODIMENT
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Amott/Steer)

I bow down 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.

Out will be done,
Thy kingdom burn,
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.

Our will be done,
Thy kingdom burn thy kingdom burn,
Our will be done.

From your knees arise,
By your own hand, your god you scribe,
The earth shall inherit the meek,
Your god is dead.

(Lead - Amott)

Bound down, in God weıre frussed, 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,
Serve a crown of pawns.

(Lead - Steer)

@SONG: THIS MORTAL COIL
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Steer/Amott)

Tearing down the walls,
Breaching frontiers, unlocking the gates,
To a new world disorder,
A fresh balance of terror, the equilibrium of hate,
All flesh entwined, in the equality of pain.

Archaid nescience unleashed,
Entrenched, a bitter legacy,
Tempered in mental scars,
All flesh entwined in mortal equality.

Tangled mortal coil,

(1st lead - Steer)
(2nd lead - Amott)

Twisted and warped
Tangled mortal coil.

@SONG: ARBEIT MACHT FLEISCH
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Steer)

Prognathous gears grind,
So diligent and serrated they mesh,
Toothed cogs chum,
So trechant, against soft flesh,
Worked to the bone,
Up to the hilt, depredated,
Raw materialism,
To stoke the furnaces,
Toiling, rotting,
Life slowly slips away,
Consumed, inhumed,
In this mechanized corruption line,
By mincing machinery industrialised - pulped and pulverised,
Enslaved to the grind.

Blood, sweat, toil, tears,
Arbeit macht frei/fleisch.

Grave to the grind.

(Lead - Amott)

Inimitable gears twist,
To chum a living grave,
Stainless cogs shredding,
Scathing pistons bludgeon and flail,
Stripping to the bone,
Retund mandrels levigate,
Just raw material,
Your pound of flesh for the suzerain,
Toiling, rotting,
Life slowly dissipates,
Consumed, inhumed,
In a corruption line, mechanized,
By mincing machinery, industrialized - crunched and brutalised,
A grave to the blind.

(Lead - Steer)

@SONG: BLIND BLEEDING THE BLIND
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Steer)

(Lick trade-off Amott/Steer/Amott/Steer)

Parched with thirst our cup overfloweth,
With the crimson milk of human blindness,
In charnel towers of ivory besieged,
The bones of subjugation are picked clean,
In barren decadence, tears are the only affluence,
Welling eyes are indifferent, as the blind bleed.

Blood and tear-out damn spot out,
The fruits of perpetual decay,
Pouring the salts in open wounds-out damn spot out,
The scars remain, will stay perpetual decay.

Bloody bands never wash clean,
Abject misery to bleed,
Decadence to feed,
Out damn spot out.

Parched with thirst how the other half die,
Void of compassion our cup runs dry,
With a silver spoon born to dig communal graves,
The only consecration, the economics of pain,
In barren decadence, tears are the fuel of affluence,
Wells of blood run diffluent, a bitter harvest to reap...

(Lead trade-off Amott/Steer/Amoot/Steer)

@SONG: DOCTRINAL EXPLETIVES
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Steer/Amott)

A play on words, or words on play,
Last chapter, verse in the final act,
Words well scripted, each sentence choking,
Inaudible gay, blanket which suffocates,
As you eat anotherıs words,
Manourished, you starve.

(Lead - Amott)

Silence has a definition,
Vocabulary of muted diction,
Precise thought to miscomprehend,
Ambiguity in high resolution,
Articulate expletive fiction,
Open to misinterpretation-so precise,
(Silence has a definition,
A vocabulary of muted diction,
Articulate, expletive.)

Condensed meaning, making no sense,
Open mouth the lines,
In stressed expression, understand the silence,
The piercing calm, sour music to your ears,
As you regurgitate anotherıs words,
In their shallowness you drown.

(Lead - Amott)

A play on words, making no sense.

(Lead - Steer)

Which makes no sense
Which makes nonsense.

@SONG: DEATH CERTIFICATE
(Lyrics : Walker, Music : Amott/Steer)

A grim myriad, a grey kaleidoscope, sterile, constrating,
Born and die, institutionalised, a bleak epitaph, an apalogue so sad.

Cross indexed, cross dissected,
Cross referenced, contabescence,
Cross indexed, cross bisected,
Cross referenced, certificate of death/certified dead.

Machine coded, reduced to hard memory, in a data base,
Digitalised, statistical obituary, you only legacy, your final resting place.

(1st lead - Steer)
(2nd lead - Amott)