Carcass Word of the Day Calendar: Nov. 5, 2008

While we make much of Carcass’s innovative take on gore and grind and the band’s lingering reputation for over the top gross out humor, far too often we ignore the potential educational value lurking in songs like “Splattered Cavities.” Now you could lead your middle school anatomy class through yet one more repetition of “Dem Bones,” or some daring teacher could grow a pair and get creative and hum a few bars of this Reek of Putrefaction retch fest to acquaint eager young minds with the wonders hidden in their own viscera. Educators, if you truly think the children are our future, you owe it to them.

Erupted thoracic savies - serum, pus and offal

Perspiring ulcerous chancre - splattered on your wall

Necro-cellular lesions - the stench of staining scabsS

craped up by medics, and wrapped in plastic bags

Exploding pus and bile, abdominal saliva sprays

Coughing out your intestines, and rubbing them in your face

Carbuncles oozing sanguous, mortified entrails and rot

Pieced together for autopsy, in your wooden box

Frantic pelvic gut-wrench

Splattered guts and gore
Seeping disembowelment

Mopped up off the floor

Pelvic insides now rest in your perineum

Splattered gore seeping from your orifices like hot sebum

Pancreatic juices

Internal digestive mess

Acidic dripping spittle

And squelching moist flesh

Pulverized thoracic cavity

Your rib-cage is snapped

Rupturing internal organs

Crushed in your diaphragm

Your lungs are collapsed

As your abdominal cavity is splattered

Terminal back-ache paralysing

As your spine is shattered

Thoracic – adj. pertaining to the chest cavity.
Savies – once again Carcass has stumped me. Medical community, feel free to jump in on this one.
Chancre – n. a syphilis lesion.
Carbuncle – n. a painful subcutaneous inflammation.
Sangous – not actually a word, but sang is the Latin root for blood so I’ll assume that’s where they were heading with that one.
Perineum – n. the area in front of the anus. You affectionately know it as the taint.
Sebum – n. the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.