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The title contains a gory pun (putting sore into jigsaw), a staple technique of Carcass'.
Corporal = body related, and quandary = puzzle or dilemma. Putting it all together, one gets the image of a guy looking at a bunch of severed body parts, struggling to figure out how they fit together.
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[Intro]
"Identifying the bodies which are decomposed, dismembered, skeletonised pose very serious problems. We've had many cases in this department where a body has been found in pieces, or decomposed, and we've been able to put things together—"
"Yes, the head, the upper part of the body, in a very badly decomposed state."
[Verse 1]
Excised and anatomised, deviscerated disarray
The torso diverged with pride
Deftly amputated, evulsed limbs now defunct
The trunk imbrued, tatty stumps used as lugs
For a chondrin puzzle so quaint
Head and body decollate
A heaving mass so quiescent
[Verse 2]
Scattered and scrambled, your teasement grows
A bloody caricature to make whole
A squirming grisly jigsaw, detrital fragments fit so snug
That missing piece will leave you stumped
Totally disassembled, nicely sliced and diced
A cold mannequin once resembled
Real cranium teaser, carved from flesh and bone, so mystifying
[Verse 3]
Battered and diffused, with placating blows
A human jigsaw to make whole
A sequacious pattern which once fitted so snug
Joining together each dubious lump
Ravaged disassembly, neatly cubed and diced
A cold mannequin reassembled
Astute brain teaser, incorporate flesh and bone, so mortifying
[Bridge]
An incessant game
Methodically made
With each cumulative piecing
Of commensated meat
[Verse 4]
Bi-manual reconstruction, eldritch problem complete
A convented effigy
A pathological toy, each chunk rigorously
Inter mortis locking, as you pathogenically rot
Such a perplexing task
To fit the remains in the casket
Uliginous mess so quiescent
[Guitar Solos]
[Bridge]
An incessant game
Methodically made
With each cumulative piece
Of commensated meat
Corporal Jigsore Quandary was written by Jeff Walker & Bill Steer & Ken Owen & Michael Amott.
Corporal Jigsore Quandary was produced by Colin Richardson.
Carcass released Corporal Jigsore Quandary on Wed Oct 30 1991.