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Incarnated Solvent Abuse

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The lyrics present a disturbing process in which human remains are reduced and turned into glue, while the fumes are inhaled. They begin with a clinical note about identifying a body, then shift into graphic descriptions of grinding bones and preparing materials. This movement from detached, practical language to images of toxic abuse creates a growing sense of horror and disgust.

Several images make the transformation vivid. โ€œHuman glueโ€ suggests that a person has been reduced to a sticky substance, with identity and dignity stripped away. The repeated references to fumes being breathed in or savoured imply deliberate inhalant abuse, even as the vapours are described as poisonous. The words about remains being โ€œbonded together as gumโ€ extend the image of glue: what once belonged to a body is joined into a new, disturbing substance.

The speakerโ€™s tone is not clearly that of a real witness; it may be a deliberately grotesque voice describing an imagined or exaggerated scene. The opening reference to a pathologist gives the lyrics a medical, factual surface, but the later language is extreme and sometimes difficult to follow. This contrast may make the subject feel even more unsettling. The lyrics do not explain who is responsible or why, so the focus seems less on a specific story than on bodily destruction, toxic consumption, and the shock of treating human remains as raw material.