The initial title for this track stood as “aneurysm,” and as follows, the lyrics describe Thomas Haake’s conception of transfiguration from life to death via hemorrhaged vessel within the skull.
According to Haake, it took months to learn how to play “Bleed” and he had to change his way of drumming...
[Verse 1]
Beams of fire sweep through my head
Thrusts of pain increasingly engaged
Sensory receptors succumb
And now I know all the agony
My crimson liquid so frantically spilled
The ruby fluid of life unleashed
[Verse 2]
Ripples ascend to the surface of my eyes
Their red pens drawing at random, at will
A myriad pains begotten in their wake
The bastard spawn of a mutinous self
The regurgitation of my micro nemesis
Salivating red at the prospect of my ruin, my doom
[Bridge 1]
Malfunction--the means for its ascent
Bloodletting--the stringent voice to beckon my soul
[Bridge 2]
So futile, any resisting tension
As death-induced mechanics propel its growth
[Verse 3]
The implement, the device of my extinction
The terminating clockwork of my gleeful bane
The definitive scourge of its mockery
The end-art instruments lethality attained
[Chorus]
Heed--it commands, heed my will
Bleed--it says, bleed you will
[Verse 4]
Falling into the clarity of undoing
Scornful gods haggle for my soul
Mind's eye flickers and vellicates as I let go
Taunting whispers accompany my deletion
[Outro]
A sneering grin, the voice of my reaper
Chanting softly the song of depletion
Bleed was written by Fredrik Thordendal & Tomas Haake.
Bleed was produced by Meshuggah.