Key: E minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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occupation was a'calling, like a tumor, it within me swelled
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A path some found appalling,
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that I would come to know so well
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the filthy task I'd undertake
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With a gruesome thirst for knowledge,
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that only the dead could slake
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My studies dismissed as morbid,
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My deathly imagination derided,
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and into the darkness borne
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From clandestine forays into graveyards,
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to the operating theater's grisly scenes
Verse 2
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bloody studies dug ever deeper
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in to the obscene and the unclean
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Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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For in death's sleep what dreams may come?
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what deeds must be done
Verse 4
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tomist, a necrologist
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But I'll never be an apologist
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My chosen path, to carve up stiffs
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A career dismissed as
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a dead end
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you won't be laid
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To serve my much derided trade
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Your legacy will fade to a dead end
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
of my father's coffin-
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But by staving in those caskets,
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a richer living could be gained
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My heart beat time
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I learned to pluck men from the grave
Verse 6
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the name of "resurrection- man" playing that reviled trade
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Interlude 3
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Verse 7
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For in death's sleep what
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dreams may come?
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what deeds must be done
Verse 8
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But I'll never be an apologist
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My chosen path, to dig up stiffs
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as a dead end
Verse 9
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A surgeon's trade
Verse 10
You mourn a rest to which
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you won't be laid
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Your legacy will fade to a dead end
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Outro 1
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