A tempo-changing metal song, “The Wheel” is about the eponymous torture device.
The Wheel (also known as the breaking wheel or Catherine wheel) is a classical torture device that sees the victim usually bludgeoned to death after their bones are broken.
There were several ways the breaking wheel wa...
Bring forth
Those that we have granted life
So that they
May die
[Chorus 1]
Death!
Death to life!
Break him
Break him on the wheel
[Chorus 1]
Death!
Death to life!
Death!
Death to life!
[Verse 1]
Worlds I have destroyed
Gods I have annoyed
Hatred makes me happy
I'm often overjoyed
[Chorus 1]
Death!
Death to life!
Death!
Death to life!
[Verse 2]
Planets to enslave
Popes to find their graves
Your proudest works, I grind to dust
Your ass, a ham to shave
[Chorus 2]
Broken on the wheel
Fucked up way to die
Even worse than crucifixion
Bloated buzzards flock and fly
Broken on the wheel
This one here will do
Smash your joints with steel-shod rims
Winding you into
The Wheel
Such a marvelous invention!
[Solo]
[Bridge]
Broken on the wheel
Fucked up way to die
Even worse than crucifixion
Bloated buzzards flock and fly
Broken on the wheel
This one here will do
Smash you with rims
Wind you into
[Chorus 1]
Death!
Death to life!
[Verse 3]
Planting a forest
Not growing trees
Wheel-broken corpses
Souls scatter likes leaves
[Chorus 2]
Broken on the wheel
Fucked up way to die
Even worse than crucifixion
Bloated buzzards flock and fly
Broken on the wheel
This one here will do
Smash your joints with steel-shod rims
Winding you into
The Wheel!
Death! To! Life!
The Wheel was written by GWAR.
The Wheel was produced by GWAR & Grant Rutledge.