An Autopsy

The easy explanation...."An Autopsy" is about a body of some sort that has been removed from it's grave and is being examined. The more complex explanation....it's not exactly an exhumed being that has been taken by graverobbers or anything, but a body that was dug up for an honest reason. They weren't examining someone who died naturally. This being had something else going on at the time of it's passing and they (the ones conducting the autopsy) are unraveling a story as they make each incision. As they examine him, they seem to become one with him in some eerie way. It's a very disturbing and graphic moment. I think that the being, when it was alive, became sudddenly taken over by something else....possibly a ghost or some source of evil and even after it had passed, the torment within itself had remained and the body's mind was trapped.

After they "sever the skull", they free the being from the torment that was life and is death. I believe the mind of the being had been dormant and is now in discarnate form....where it goes is beyond me.

This is a lot of explanation for one song, but I'm majorly into these guys and (side note) when you smoke bud, they take you on a trip you'd never imagine....hence the long explanation.

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Absolutely agree with you. Really great song by a great band.

The definition of "exhume" means to 'bring back from neglect,' which by what KrackedJars stated earlier, a grave of some kind, cast aside.

"It's lifelessness to be withheld" is quite a confusing part, because withholding it's lifelessness would mean to refrain from believing that it is dead, meaning that it is either posessed by some sort of spirit (Noted in "The saddened shadow of a man that once was." Shadow being a term for ghost) or, the lesser, a zombie or undead.

"Sickening story of uncomfortable familiarity" meaning what i think to be that they have seen something not unlike this, but it still makes them uneasy.

"A heartless cavity reveals a painless end." It is unknown if they themselves removed the heart, or if they came upon it already gone.

"Preceded by a pain unknown." In conjunction with the previous line, this states that his heart may have been taken from him and something may have possesed him through the area where his heart would be. (Remember "shadow?") This could cause indescribable pain.

"His bold voice was forever silenced." Meaning he has suffered death and has no control of life anymore.

The rest is well defined by KrackedJars.

LONG LIVE THE FACELESS MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!

Great song by the band. "Free from the torment of existence" It leads me to believe he/she wanted to die.

which would line up with the idea of being tormented and possesed by a spirit.

i think if something were doing that to me, i would want to die too...

A man, taken from his long slumber, he died painlessly, but death is an unknown pain to anyone, so they remove his head, as his existence is already ended...