Riggormortis Posthumous Muscular Rigidity Lyrics - Singles - The County Medical Examiners

The tepid carcass examinately reclines on my table 

Its peculiar muscular activity, rigor mortis, works in 

my favor 

Determining PMI through rigid, bone-cracking means 

Postmortem rigidity occurs through the depletion of 

ATP... 

Adenosine triphosphate is required for muscle 

relaxation 

But metabolic activity continues after death and 

creates a reaction 

Lactid acid is spent and exhausts the store of 

glycogen 

Muscles go hard from the abnormal links between actin 

and myosin... 

This maturating stiff... 

Becomes quite stiff... 

Positioning the corpse can be quite a Herculean task 

As I bend the crepitating unmalleable limbs with 

revolting cracks 

Obstinate appendages stubbornly give way under my 

dragoon efforts 

My aching muscles are overtaxed and pushed well passed 

discomfort... 

...Paralytic legs, unflexing arms... 

...Carrion with all its frozen charm... 

...Unmoving torso, intractable neck... 

...Deplorable corpse a total wreck... 

Between 2 and 12 hours is the solidifying time 

required 

For abductors and adductors to become unyieldingly 

mired 

It will take a day for outstretched extremities to 

acquiesce 

Finally amenable to my adroit limb-wrenching finesse... 

The lampooning hu-mannequin's muscle proteins are 

devoured 

As the taciturn body achieves maximal rigor in 12 

hours 

12 hours more and the muscular fiber grudgingly give 

way 

When the proteolytic enzymes in the lysosomes of 

muscle cells escape... 

...Corpse piquantly olid... 

...Now maceratedly flaccid... 

Barring rare cadaveric spasms, a PMI timeline can be 

mapped 

Factor in environmental variables and the effects they 

can have 

Ripening malodorous remains can speak from the grave 

And tell us their time of death by how their muscles 

behave... 

...Paralytic legs, unflexing arms... 

...Carrion with all its frozen charm... 

...Unmoving torso, intractable neck... 

...Deplorable corpse a total wreck...