Dinnertime Lyrics

Album: Black

Terrified, mortified

I listened to the words he whispered so slowly

This is the corpse of you my friend

And I assure it tastes just as rotten as it looks

This is the punishment for your sins

This is the punishment for your life

While alive you were but waste

So now in death, nothing shall be thrown away

My life, I saw it before my eyes

All the things I did wrong

I always thought that nothing would matter

Everyone should be equal in death

But I was wrong, I was so terribly wrong

In the grave you face yourself

Indeed, it’s true, my dying friend

And you won’t leave this place until you’ve eaten all

When you wake up in a room seated among gloomy strangers

Humming a somber melody and the stench of death fills your lungs

When you’re served a rotting carcass and you’re told the body is your own

Your own decaying corpse prepared to be eaten and devoured

Then you know the end has come, then you know you dine in hell

Then you slowly realize that you have awoken

To what will be your final meal

And now it is dinnertime

The seventeen who sat with me

Simultaneously revealed themselves

They were the people I had used

They were the people whose lives I had destroyed

I screamed at them, please help me

And they slowly turned their heads towards me

They stopped humming and started to laugh

Mocking me as I was frozen in space

The reaper still stood behind me

Dressed in his waiter clothes

Now eat, he said

The longer you wait the worse it will be

Because you see, here in my dining hall

No one can die unless I tell them to

So we can wait for an hour or a thousand years

It only makes a difference to you

When you wake up in a room seated among gloomy strangers

Humming a somber melody and the stench of death fills your lungs

When you’re served a rotting carcass and you’re told the body is your own

Your own decaying corpse prepared to be eaten and devoured

Then you know the end has come, then you know you dine in hell

Then you slowly realize that you have awoken

To what will be your final meal

And now it is dinnertime