In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Conceived through rape
Procreate
A vicious brood
Ravaging intercourse
Penetrate with coarse
Forsaken, nude
Spawn of the wretched, born of the rape
Dawn of the murdering beasts of hate
Spawn of the wretched cunt defiled
Pawn of the darkness, blasphemous child
The wretched spawn, inherently vile
Inherited traits
Reprobate
From birth an urge
No chance to change
Born deranged
Violence will emerge
Spawn of the wretched, born of the rape
Dawn of the murdering beasts of hate
Spawn of the wretched cunt defiled
Pawn of the darkness, blasphemous child
The wretched spawn, inherently vile
Spawn of the wretched, bred from the damned
Gone are the instincts normal of man
Spawn of the wanton loins of the cruel
Spawned by brute force used as a tool
The wretched spawn, violence will rule
Heredity dictates brutality
Groomed to carry the legacy
Genres of the butchers, a killing breed
Revel in making the helpless breed
Scion of the murders
A bloodline so profane
Born insane
Predestined to annihilate
Through sinister eugenics
Sworn to kill, they will
It was made to kill
Massacre the innocents
A slaughter without meaning
Bleed, screaming
Only one remains untouched
Her fate is violation
Vile
Impregnation
Procreate
A vicious brood
Ravaging intercourse
Penetrate with coarse
Forsaken, nude
Spawn of the wretched, born of the rape
Dawn of the murdering beasts of hate
Spawn of the wretched cunt defiled
Pawn of the darkness, blasphemous child
The wretched spawn, inherently vile
Inherited traits
Reprobate
From birth an urge
No chance to change
Born deranged
Violence will emerge
Spawn of the wretched, born of the rape
Dawn of the murdering beasts of hate
Spawn of the wretched cunt defiled
Pawn of the darkness, blasphemous child
The wretched spawn, inherently vile
Spawn of the wretched, bred from the damned
Gone are the instincts normal of man
Spawn of the wanton loins of the cruel
Spawned by brute force used as a tool
The wretched spawn, violence will rule
Heredity dictates brutality
Groomed to carry the legacy
Genres of the butchers, a killing breed
Revel in making the helpless breed
Scion of the murders
A bloodline so profane
Born insane
Predestined to annihilate
Through sinister eugenics
Sworn to kill, they will
It was made to kill
Massacre the innocents
A slaughter without meaning
Bleed, screaming
Only one remains untouched
Her fate is violation
Vile
Impregnation
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The Wretched Spawn Lyrics as written by Alexander Webster
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