One of GWAR’s most popular songs, “Immortal Corrupter” (misspelled “Corruptor” on the album) is a prog metal-inspired track with grotesque and poetic lyrics. It has become a staple of the band’s concerts, usually performed on its own with no extra theatricality.
The music video, only released on Th...
[Verse 1]
Centuries of carnage
Centuries of chaos yet unfolded
A planet built on bone
Spinning in a space unmolded
Armies are arrayed
Like toys on tabletops
It's almost funny
Bodies raped and flayed
The sea is red with blood
The sky is sunny
[Chorus]
(Ha!
Ha!
Ha!)
Immortal!
(Ha!
Ha!
Ha!)
Corrupter!
[Verse 2]
Your entrails are displayed
Upon a rack we break the bones within you
Your fighters are dismayed
And wonder if it is wise to continue
(To) To resist my will
(Resist) The babies that I bake fill a volcano
(My will)
I'm clogging up the kill
My wretched baby paste requires Drāno
[Chorus]
I
Out
Of my
Mind
Immortal corrupter
Malignance defined
Chew the womb
Seal the tomb
Leave the dead behind
Immortal corrupter
Dagger of the mind
(Ayayayay...)
[Verse 3]
The betrayer is enraged
His mask is broke, his crimson hauberk cloven
His brains they are arrayed
Amongst the ruin of the lies he'd spoken
[Solo]
Immortal!
Corrupter!
[Solo]
[Bridge]
And if I was a sperm
I'd consecrate my germ
And then continue
And if I was a worm
I'd find a way
That I could crawl up in you
Crawl up in you!
[Solo]
And if I was a sperm
(Immortal!)
And if I was a worm
(Corrupter!)
If I was a sperm, if I was a germ
If I was a
[Chorus]
I
Out
Of my
Mind
Immortal corrupter
Malignance defined
(Ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh)
Immortal corrupter
Dagger of the mind!
Immortal Corrupter was written by GWAR.
Immortal Corrupter was produced by GWAR & Grant Rutledge.
GWAR released Immortal Corrupter on Tue Nov 06 2001.