The Maggot's Progress (Part II)

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Because y’all like weird crap. Thanks, Tom, for the idea of writing from the perspective of a dead person watching their body decompose.

Kat: lyrics, keys, vocals

Once I was composed
eyes of stars, lips like a rose but
what am I worth
turning into dirt?
Hair, skin and veins

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
I lay me down
I pray to you, Mother, bless this soul
and make me whole again

Now I am consumed
bear witness to this seething tomb, I
break down to earth
Muscle, tendon, nerve

Maggots’ work is never done
toiling in the blazing sun, I
slowly decompose
a fate that no one knows
Beneath this shroud of skin:
Bone, marrow, soul

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
I lay me down
I pray to you, Mother, bless this soul
and make me whole again

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
please cry for me
I pray to you, Goddess, bless my soul
and make me whole again
make me whole again…