The mother drowns her young in sour wine She bares her chest for strangers, coin by coin Her children suck on mold while she sells skin Love is a transaction she won't win We're all just meat now in the grinding gears Hollow to the bone We're all just meat now, seasoned with our tears Beautiful and alone The preacher folds the altar boy in black God's little sacrifice won't answer back His holy hands explore a different creed The confessional absolves the deed We're all just meat now in the grinding gears Hollow to the bone We're all just meat now, seasoned with our tears Beautiful and alone The virgin sharpens paragraphs to blades His trigger finger traces all their shapes He carves each woman into blood-soaked sheets His only lovers are the ones he beats You swallow filth and call it appetite You beg for chains and polish them with pride You lick the hand that splits your skull in two Nobody kills you quite the way you do We're all just meat now in the grinding gears Hollow to the bone We're all just meat now, seasoned with our tears Beautiful and alone
