Day of the Baphomets Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Sawin' off the pavement, repenting their past lives
Might I be the only payment left to be left behind?
Clay and pigment footsteps, rust it boilin' clean
Our bull let in linguistics that only we can breathe
[Refrain]
I got a prayer that'll make you theirs now, beneath sepulchers
Raise your entrails as an offer
I got a prayer that'll make you theirs now, beneath sepulchers
Raise your entrails as an offer
[Verse 2]
Fondling with pitchforks in a cattle-prodded sea
Signaling the sedatives to emaciate their queen
Bowing in constriction, anytime you leave
We snuffed ourselves an angel and cut her by the wings
[Refrain]
I got a prayer that'll make you theirs now, beneath sepulchers
Raise your entrails as an offer
I got a prayer that'll make you theirs now, beneath sepulchers
Raise your entrails as an offer
In my sight, I was born
To bring death at the footsteps of your home
Tonight, I have sewn
All the hair and crooked nails that you all have worn
While your wife sits at home
I plant the vermin, 'cause she needs it so
[Chorus]
How long must we fold by hand
The nuns are burning wheels again
Dent of mattress to make it bare
Come clean with the anecdote
After all we came undone
Pale of sluts with host at fault
One day we won't pay your debt
Our centipedes will get theirs yet
[Post-Chorus]
Poachers in your home
Poachers in your home
Poachers in your home
Poachers in your home
[Instrumental Break]
How long must we fold by hand
The nuns are burning wheels again
Dent of mattress to make it bare
Come clean with the anecdote
After all we came undone
Pale of sluts with host at fault
One day we won't pay your debt
Our centipedes will get theirs yet
How long must we fold by hand
The nuns are burnin' wheels again
Dent of mattress to make it bare
Come clean with the anecdote
After all we came undone
Pale of sluts with host at fault
One day we won't pay your debt
Our centipedes will get theirs yet
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge 1]
Fold the river by the lips
As a cruel and smothered wind
Fits the gash with ornaments
Dawn is nodding off again
Raised the braille to read it clear
Gathered by the cholera
Rinse the burns in cauldrons
Help the palm we see a lens
My hands secrete a monument
My hands secrete a monument
My hands secrete a monument
My hands, hands, hands, hands
My hands secrete a monument
My hands secrete a monument
My hands secrete a monument
My, my, my, my
[Bridge 2]
I am the reason for your missing child
They might be home, but there's no trace
Under your pillow, I have left a spine
Oh the things we do when you're away
I saw the message that you wrote in the sand
Dismembered hints that carve away
The anesthetic of your gospel said
Put a muzzle on the lamb, put a muzzle on the lamb
Give me one page, give me one page
Make it blank, mace that I leak will rain
Give me one page, give me one page
Make it blank, race I inflict your way
Maybe one day you'll stop and realize
The throne that you serve is dead
Give me a plague, give me a plague
Make it blank, nothing you own is safe
[Chorus]
How long must we fold by hand
The nuns are burning wheels again
Dent of mattress to make it bare
Come clean with the anecdote
After all we came undone
Pale of sluts with host at fault
One day we won't pay your debt
Our centipedes will get theirs yet
How long must we fold by hand
The nuns are burnin' wheels again
Dent of mattress to make it bare
Come clean with the anecdote
After all we came undone
Pale of sluts with host at fault
One day we won't pay your debt
Our centipedes will get theirs yet
[Post-Chorus]
Poachers in your home
Poachers in your home
Poachers in your home
Poachers in your home
About
Day of the Baphomets is the seventh song on Amputehcture, and relates to the overall theme of religion and its worst aspects.
A Baphomet is a deity based on the Sabbatic Goat, created by Éliphas Lévi. They are most commonly seen to represent the occult. The lyrics describe the sins of religion as cultish and primitive.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Cedric Bixler-Zavala:
I wanted to make a song that was like the movie The Believers, where this cabal stole kids and did some occult shit with them. But I wanted it to be like, ‘What if the people you hire to do jobs you don’t wanna do rise up one day and then pull some shit like that?’ Like it was the guerrilla warfare, them taking over – wouldn’t that be some fucked up shit? And the music just lent itself to that – the big intro, the bass solo, and all of the ruckus that occurs.
—via Press Release
In an Ask Me Anything (AmA) hosted on Reddit on August 01, 2012, Juan Alderete answered as follows:
It was my first take so I guess a lot. Omar only asked me to fix one part but that was it. It is 98% first take.
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