The Master Butcher's Apron Lyrics - Surgical Steel - Carcass

The sun never sets 

The blood never dries 

The selfless sacrifice 

Of the butchers maligned 

The sun never sets 

The blood never dries 

Lest we forget 

The sun never sets 

Teardrops never dry 

This deathless bloodshed 

Of the whetted knives 

For your sons you never wept 

The fruitless sacrifice 

Of the master butchers 

Never trusted in the dark 

Pecuniary villeinage 

A decaying realm to rapine and plunder 

Like maggots colonizing 

Contagious disease contaminating 

Expansionist plague to pillage & conquer 

The union of cruciate & saltire 

The callous cruciate & saltire 

To beneficiate the graveyard of empire 

In the name of his tyrannical majesty 

To serve the imperialist tragedy 

A cruel serving sovereignty 

A subjugating murderous monarchy 

Recollections of the past, revised, laundered, tainted & poisoned 

But I'll raise a toast to the memory of those who served in the 

West African squadron 

Merciful overlords 

In the name of diabolical oligarchy 

In the kingdom of demise rules supremacy 

Solipsistic crowned nobility 

Stern reigning gunboat diplomacy 

Recollections of the past, revised, condemn, taint & poison 

But I'll raise my glass to the memory of the wretches who 

Served in the preventative squadron 

I salute 

Those who tugged at the master butcher's apron strings 

The sun never sets 

The blood never dried 

The fruitless sacrifice 

Of the butchers benign 

The sun it never sets 

The blood never dries 

Lest we forget 

That the master butchers still whet their knives