Defenders of the Grave

Stalk through hallowed headstones
 For notes and coin, trade flesh and bone
 Your eternal rest may, become nocturnal wrest
 The newly deceased, still bereaved
 Snatched from their peace, taken without leave
 Truncated repose, for the decomposed
 Adamantine clasp of the mortsafe
 The muddy bonds of earth
 Patent coffins do not vouchsafe
 Calm repose beneath the turf
 Stone walls do not a prison make
 Nor six feet of sod a grave
 Pray the lord your soul to take
 You'll need defenders of the...
 Graves' occupants, so dearly prized
 But to butcher, not to eulogize
 To rest they were laid
 Now sold under the blade
 Who turns the key to the mortsafe
 When the sexton stuffs his purse?
 Nightwatchmen cannot vouchsafe
 Calm repose beneath the turf
 Stone walls do not a prison make
 Nor six feet of sod a grave
 So pray the lord your soul to take
 You'll need defenders of the grave
 Defenders of the grave
 Hallmarks of this ghoulish age
 Defenders of the grave, defenders of the...
 Solo – Matthew Harvey
 Solo – Michael Burke
 Stone walls do not a prison make
 Nor shovels full of sod a grave
 So pray the lord your soul to take
 You'll need defenders of the grave
 Defenders of the grave
 Hallmarks of this ghoulish age
 Defenders of the grave
 Defenders of the...
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