Frederick's Experiments

A cockroach's decapitated head lives on for days
 I'm intrigued and inspired by nature and its ways
 Experimenting on insects, birds, dogs and rats
 The subjects die instantly after severing their head
 In the arts of life man invents nothing
 But in the arts of death he outdoes nature herself
 A leg of a dissected spider still contracts
 This resurrects the idea of an experiment on human legs
 A limb sawed off and stolen from the local cemetery
 Contracting muscles quiver through electricity
 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
 Knew exactly what to do with his prisoners
 Sealed in a wooden barrel with single hole
 Observing time of death and departing of the soul
 Two prisoners are invited for dinner at the same time
 One is sent out hunting, the other ordered to sleep for a while
 Both men disemboweled, compared with fascinated eyes
 On the contents of their stomachs and the effects of sleep and exercise
 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
 A man with a taste for scientific horror
 The quest for the primal language of mankind
 An experiment designed by a dark sadistic mind
 Infants bred to be raised like Adam and Eve
 To be bathed and fed by mutes, words never spoken
 All their lives concealed from love, care and speech
 Psychotic savages all ending up broken