Body and Blood
Infestissumam
2013
Duration: 3:43
Track number: 7
Times played live: 264
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
A visceral critique of the Eucharist and Christian communion. The song presents the sacred ritual in raw, grotesque terms: 'Receive. Consume / Digest / Defecate.' By juxtaposing holy practice with bodily functions, Ghost deconstructs religious ceremony, forcing listeners to confront the physical discomfort of faith and the uncomfortable realities often hidden beneath spiritual tradition.
Lyrics
This grave hill stinks of death
A reek from the ground
Catches whiff of the hound
A dead ones breath
The casket lid is cold
Waiting inside
Is someone petrified
That odours old
His body and blood
Sharing in common
His body and blood
His body and blood
Serving Messiah
Son of God
The bitter taste is sweet
So eat Nazarene
And you kiss the obscene
Anointed feet
His body and blood
Sharing in common
His body and blood
His body and blood
Serving Messiah
His body and blood
Sharing in common
His body and blood
His body and blood
Serving Messiah
Son of God
Receive, consume
Receive, consume
Digest
Defecate
His body and blood
Sharing in common
His body and blood
His body and blood
Serving Messiah
Son of God
Musicians
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