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Postmortem Lyrics
Funeral Held For The Depression Of Man
Holds The Key To His Own Death
Entering A Tomb Of A Corpse Yet Conceived
Tighten The Tourniquet Around Your Neck
Sifting Away The Debris Of Hatred Life
Cold Touch Of Death Begins To Chill Your Spine
Seeking Life Beyond Your Perishment
Repeating Words Echoing Through Your Mind
Chanting Lines Of Blind Witchery
To Save Yourself From Extinction
Wanting To Die Is Your Reason To Live
New Life Born From The Oppressed
Taste Your Blood As It Trickles Through The Air
Another Casualty Beyond The Shadows You Fall
Losing Ground, The Fate You Feel It Draws Near
Fatality, Reality, You Await The Final Call
My Sinful Glare At Nothing Holds Thoughts
Of Death Behind It
Skeletons In My Mind Commence
Tearing At My Sanity
Vessels In My Brain Carry Death Until My Birth
Come And Die With Me Forever
Share Insanity
Do You Want To Die!
The Waves Of Blood Are Rushing Near,
Pounding At The Walls Of Lies
Turning Off My Sanity,
Reaching Back Into My Mind
Non-Rising Body From The Grave Showing New Reality
What I Am, What I Want, I'm Only After Death
Holds The Key To His Own Death
Entering A Tomb Of A Corpse Yet Conceived
Tighten The Tourniquet Around Your Neck
Cold Touch Of Death Begins To Chill Your Spine
Seeking Life Beyond Your Perishment
Repeating Words Echoing Through Your Mind
To Save Yourself From Extinction
Wanting To Die Is Your Reason To Live
New Life Born From The Oppressed
Another Casualty Beyond The Shadows You Fall
Losing Ground, The Fate You Feel It Draws Near
Fatality, Reality, You Await The Final Call
Of Death Behind It
Skeletons In My Mind Commence
Tearing At My Sanity
Vessels In My Brain Carry Death Until My Birth
Come And Die With Me Forever
Share Insanity
Pounding At The Walls Of Lies
Turning Off My Sanity,
Reaching Back Into My Mind
Non-Rising Body From The Grave Showing New Reality
What I Am, What I Want, I'm Only After Death
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What the fuck, best damn Slayer song ever and no one bothered with it. No other song gets me wanting to beat the fuck out of everyone like this one. Postmortem-there is no end to the number of ways one can reach death.
Yeah, it's so obviously about suicide.
Props to Araya for that note he holds when he says 'the final call' as well. Most perfect falsetto I've ever heard a man do.
Hey , they stole my name lol.
Raining Blood sounds better with the last 40 seconds of Postmortem. It gives the song a more bombastic introduction.
well, the word postmortem means after death. maybe its about the afterlife. maybe its about someone who died and wants to live again because they didnt realize how good life was until they knew that they couldnt have it anymore. or maybe its about someone that is alive and sick of life and wants to die.awesome ass fuckin song, i love to play it. S L A Y E R R U L E Z
To me, its about being executed and the process by which a criminal dies while being hung.
Definitely about afterlife, "death is just the start" kind of thing. He doesnt like life or is just so curious/immersed in the whole idea of the afterlife, of wiping himself out to acheive immortality in death (somewhat of a paradox) "Chanting Lines Of Blind Witchery To Save Yourself From Extinction Wanting To Die Is Your Reason To Live"
The search of immortality through death, everlasting life through the ending of life, only void is forever, kinda deep stuff behind this.
Love the feeling you get when he sings "What I am, What I want, Im only after Death" combined with the classic trashmetal drum snap stopping everything for a second before it all comes slaughtering back. Its as if you can hear him entering forever
there are many ways one can die. many ways one can reach death.many ways to achieve POSTMORTEM
Seeking Life Beyond Your Perishment Repeating Words Echoing Through Your Mind
Chanting Lines Of Blind Witchery To Save Yourself From Extinction
sounds like there theyre talkin about religious rituals often performed in hopes to have life everlasting (postmortem life)
Postmortem literally means "after death." This is a song about a man who's after death--wanting to die is his reason to live. He's made his preparations for the afterlife, and is fulfilling them in order to live on past his death.
Seeking Life Beyond Your Perishment Repeating Words Echoing Through Your Mind
Chanting Lines Of Blind Witchery To Save Yourself From Extinction
At the final, fast part, the song shifts perspectives to first-person, where Araya is the man seeking death.
What I Am, What I Want, I'm Only AFTER DEATH!