Putrefaction, hurry oh beloved bride

To establish our lonely camp

Rejected by the world, rejected by god

My hope, lies in you



Take my paining body into the wonder of you

Smother my pain in your embrace

Worms devour thought and feeling



Take my paining body into the wonder of you

Smother my pain in your embrace

Worms devour thought and feeling



Hasten, decorate our chamber

For on a scootblack bier the silent lover

your dwelling shall reach

So hasten, prepare our bridal bed

Which shall sow with carnactions



To wonderful gratification, stifling bewitchment

Us black attired comrades followeth

Our wedding march ringeth from iron bells

And shrouds of green draperies hideth us



When storms ravish the worldly seas

When atrocities reign on the bloodfilled earth

When feuds are raging, we slumber thou and I

In contented peace



Take my paining body into the wonder of you

Smother my pain in your embrace

Worms devour thought and feeling



Take my paining body into the wonder of you

Smother my pain in your embrace

Worms devour thought and feeling



To ash in my ravished heart

Oh rich are you, wench, whom I dowry

Giveth me the great, the flourishing earth

Up here, do I suffer, though happines overcomes me

In the nether with you