The title is clearly a pun off of “the blind leading the blind,” which describes someone who knows nothing being guided by someone who also knows nothing.
The phrase “blind bleeding the blind” sums this up, but implies that this “guidance” includes a certain level of harm and exploitation.
“Abidin...
[Verse 1]
Parched with thirst
Our cup overfloweth
With the crimson milk
Of human blindness
In charnel towers
Of ivory besieged
The bones of subjugation
Are picked clean
[Pre-Chorus 1]
In barren decadence
Tears are the only affluence
Welling eyes are indifferent
As the blind bleed
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Blood and tears
Out damn spot out
The fruits of perpetual decay
Pouring the salt in open wounds
Out damn spot out
The scars remain
Will stay perpetual decay
[Chorus]
Bloody hands never wash clean
Abject misery to bleed
Decadence to feed
Out damn spot out
[Verse 2]
Parched with thirst
How the other half die
Void of compassion
Our cup runs dry
With a silver spoon born
To dig communal graves
The only consecration
The economics of pain
[Pre-Chorus 1]
In barren decadence
Tears are the fuel of affluence
Wells of blood run diffluent
A bitter harvest to reap
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Blood and tears
Out damn spot out
The fruits of perpetual decay
Pouring the salt in open wounds
Out damn spot out
The scars remain
Will stay perpetual decay
[Chorus]
Bloody hands never wash clean
Abject misery to bleed
Decadence to feed
Out damn spot
[Chorus]
Bloody hands never wash clean
Abject misery to bleed
Decadence to feed
Out damn spot out
Blind Bleeding the Blind was written by Bill Steer & Jeff Walker.
Blind Bleeding the Blind was produced by Colin Richardson.
Carcass released Blind Bleeding the Blind on Mon Oct 18 1993.