Carcass – Heartwork

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Works of art, painted black
Magniloquent, bleeding dark
Monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited
Food for thought, so prolific
In contrasting shades, forcely fed
Abstraction, so choking, so provocative

A canvas to paint, to degenerate
Dark reflections, degeneration
A canvas to paint, to denigrate
Dark reflections, of dark foul light

Profound, aesthetic beauty
Or shaded, sensary corruption
Perceptions, shattered, splintered, mirroring
In deft taints, diluted, tinted
Spelt out, in impaired colour
Denigrating, going to paints to pain, not a pretty picture

Works of heart bleeding dark
Black, magniloquent art
Monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited
Prolific food for thought
Contrasting, fed with force
Abstraction, so choking, so provocative

Bleeding works of art
Seething work so dark
Seering words from the heart

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Lyrics submitted by Seven

Track duration: 04:33

"Heartwork" as written by Jeffrey Walker, Michael Amott, William Geoffrey Steer

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    General Comment:I think this song speaks about death metal. what it means to play it and how it feels to create it.
    It's a killer track and the message of it can sum up the album and the band
    Flag Assmaskon March 28, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:A canvas to paint means something pure, still untouched..and perhaps he says in certain hands it can only degenerate as result of the interaction.

    The artist frustrated with his work result end up destroying what he created?..or maybe he just wants to express his passion for morbid images.
    Flag Agoseion March 02, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:They did this live at Wacken 2008, as seen in a video on Youtube. This song kicks ass! They might reunite! I hear that they are dying to get back together. HAHAHA!
    Flag snafuoneon May 09, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I m really not sure of the meaning but is suggest it s about aesthetisum, which has no limit. Death, darkness, horror can be beautiful...
    Flag lecaracalon April 30, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I kinda think the song might be about something like a person who was maybe gay and has no idea what life is like and the speaker might be about someone who maybe obtained this person. "A canvas to paint, to degenerate," The canvas being the persons ass?

    That's definitely right, but it's something to start with.
    Flag HankVonHelveteon September 28, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:this song is ghastlier than a thousand ghouls
    Flag HankVonHelveteon September 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I intended to make deeper thought in the meanings of the lyrics of these incredible piece... what I might have in greater deeper thought (personally) is the assasination, homicide of an artist... and as graphic as it can get, a beautiful but horrorific sight of the crime scene, can be a work of art involving the Carcass of the artist itself...
    Flag cruelasatoron June 24, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I kinda think the song might be about something like a person who was maybe caged and has no idea what life is like and the speaker might be about someone who maybe obtained this person. "A canvas to paint, to degenerate," The canvas being the persons mind?

    That's definitely not right, but it's something to start with.
    Flag Infr4meron August 04, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:unfathomably cool! anything one who disses this song is a dead meat!
    Flag guitaranalyzer55on April 21, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:They made a video for this song.
    Flag samwaltonon September 11, 2007   Link

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