Grindcore and Opera

[Verse] A beautiful corpse Dressed to the nines My heart a maggot-feeding feast Unknowing of a parasite No beauty is eternal We all rot in time A shrine to a lie An empty bag of bones and worms We die And that is all My funeral song My operatic swan song A legacy of tears And dirt And rotting in the ground I'll live on in the words My only beauty is in sound [Chorus] In the words My only beauty is in sound My only beauty is in sound In the words My only beauty is in sound My only beauty is in sound [Verse 2] The mirror cracks, the flesh decays Still I dance with ghosts of grace A thousand eyes once turned to me Now close beneath the symphony I carved my name in fleeting breath To cheat the silence, mock the death But silence hums a truer art— A requiem for my fading heart [Chorus] In the words My only beauty is in sound My only beauty is in sound In the words My only beauty is in sound My only beauty is in sound [Bridge] Let the worms compose my hymn Let the soil drink my sin Let the echoes outlive skin Let decay begin again There’s grace in the grave There’s truth in the fade The flesh forgets, but the voice remains [Final Chorus / Reprise] In the words My only beauty is in sound My only beauty is in sound In the words My only beauty is in sound My only beauty— Is in sound [Outro – whispered / fading] No beauty is eternal We all rot in time But I… I will sing through the worms.