Vivisection
They open you up while you’re still watching. Not with knives with expectations, with increments, with the quiet insistence that compliance is the same as consent. The body horror is a metaphor until it isn’t.
Tracks
- 01 Vivisection 4:17
Original poem
vivisection split clean, a dissection quiet nerves, the heart exposed compliance carved in increments doubt cauterized at the root the body learns what the mind resists lessons sewn in skin folds truth swallowed whole in sterile silence the body learns compliance first anesthetized without question the sutures burn beneath the skin doubt weeps from keloid edges shame cauterizes the questioning the body recoils from its own betrayal afraid to see what's underneath trapped between the body and what remains
Lyrics
[chorus] Vivisection split clean a wholesome dissection Vivisection quiet nerves a heart exposed [bridge] compliance carved in increments doubt cauterized at the root the body learns what the mind resists [instrumental break] refusal is a right the sutures won't hold the sutures won't hold the sutures won't hold [verse 1] lessons sewn in skin folds truth swallowed whole in sterile silence the body learns compliance first anesthetized without question [verse 2] the sutures burn beneath the skin doubt weeps from keloid edges shame cauterizes the questioning the body recoils from its own betrayal afraid to see what's underneath trapped between the body and what remains the sutures won't hold the sutures won't hold the sutures won't hold