One of our more experimental pieces this, starting out with what can only be described as lounge-lizard death, before exploring some more traditional territory, then incorporating doom and punk elements.
Lyrics
RUINOUS OPIATE
Humanities ruinous opiate of consumption
Transforms hallowed greenery to mildewed wrecks
As the concrete grey becomes our reflection
Your act of contrition proves false and hollow
Mandarins like drones hasten to their doom
Dwelling in the misery of the unhappy souls
The box with the fastest lid prised open
Releasing acts that inspire minds revulsion
A malodorous flux permeates the air
As blemished souls decline without a care
Give a litany in praise of all our deaths
Without struggle, an elegy to the flesh
People entrapped in suffocating snare
Gradual demise unnoticed by the unaware
Sight impaired by a cloak of red
Choking existence filled with daily dread.
Humanities ruinous opiate
Concrete grey
Mildewed wrecks
Reflect our lives
In this our ruinous opiate
The collective consciousness forms a corpse
Despoiling the devoted immature mind
It’s capillaries strain, precious fluidity tears
The framework of veins gushes scarlet through the air
A fatality in the source of all life
The water cleanses no guilt, cannot be saviour
Like Ophelia in the lake, surrounded by lilies
Given a warning not to dabble in curios.
Lyrics by Mark Fox
Music by Mark McGowan & Richard Mumford
Malediction music 1994, 2000
