Ravenous is a 1999 horror film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Jeffrey Jones. The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party and that of Alferd Packer. Screenwriter Ted Griffin lists Packer's story, as recounted in a couple of paragraphs of Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man, as one of his inspirations for Carlyle's character. The film's darkly humorous and ironic take on its gruesome subject matter have led some to label it a black comedy. The film's unique score by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn generated a significant amount of attention. The film's production did not get off to a good start. Original director Milco Mancevski left the production two weeks after shooting started. He was replaced by Bird at the suggestion of Carlyle.
During the Mexican-American War (1846 – 1848), Second Lieutenant Boyd fights in the United States Army (Boyd is obviously a former officer in the Army of the Republic of Texas, that merged with the US Army in 1846 - he still wears the Texas Army rank insignia of 2nd Lt.: one five pointed star on each shoulder strap). But in battle he fails to act while his unit is massacred. Playing dead, he is transported along with the other dead, with his commanding officer's blood dripping into his mouth, back to the Mexican headquarters. In a moment of sudden bravery, he captures the Mexican command. For his heroism Boyd is promoted to Captain, but his commanding officer realizes he is a coward and transfers him to the remote Fort Spencer in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
I am hunting for your soul
It dwells within your heart
I lacerate your pounding flesh
Your spirits shall be mine
So rise my spirits rise
Revel in this dead man's body
Grip his soul, sip the blood
Life in death
A holy carnage
Ravenous
I will be a god
Canivorous Jesus
I need your flesh
Ritual slaughter
Fill up the chalice
With the essence of your life
Liquid strengths trapped in your veins
I crave your blood
You must die
Ravenous
I will be a god
Canivorous Jesus
I need your flesh
I was lost like a child in the night
I couldn't tell ya wrong from right
I know they say it can never come true
but it was love at first sight
Everybody talks about you you're a big commotion
You're like the ocean
You're all around me baby
I need to know you will always care
'Cause when I fell I felt you there
But you held on to me
'Cause I
I found my legs when you stood by my side
The air around you makes me high
'Cause I'm ravenous for your love
I got back up when you held out your hand
The more you see you understand
That I'm ravenous for your love
When I met you my feelings grew
What in the world was happening to me
You made it right you brought me back in the light
You made this deaf dumb blind man see
I though I'd never meet anyone like you
But when I did you felt it too
'Cause I
I found my legs when you stood by my side
The air around you makes me high
'Cause I'm ravenous for your love
I got back up when you held out your hand
The more you see you understand
That I'm ravenous for your love
But if you ever want out
I won't stand in your way
That's not what I'm about
'Cause I need you
I'll be there when you need me around
The choice is yours of course I need you to stay
Without you I'm lost, with you I'm found
But you should know that my love will never end
From far away your honour still I'll defend
I've got it bad for you my heart you can take and break
Again and again and again
'Cause I
I found my legs when you stood by my side
The air around you makes me high
'Cause I'm ravenous for your love
I got back up when you held out your hand
The more you see you understand
All hail the tip of the spear
The misguided unyielding force
Unleashed abroad a foreign nightmare of pain
Is this what we want for ourselves?
Creep crawl under your sheets
Cheat its way through the back door
Unaffected till we are affected
Then we push for war
Then we push for war
Then we push for war
Ravenous and racing forward
Never looking back
We've killed more than we need
Knives out we bare our teeth
Strength and pain are what rules the world
End of days and we're racing to red lights
Does that make sense to anyone else?
Deny any wrong doing
Pass the buck and then fake some more blame
Lie's a circle then we all reap the whirlwind
Then we push for war
Then we push for war
Then we push for war
Ravenous and racing forward
Never looking back
We've killed more than we need
Gluttonous we feed on power
Never looking back
We've killed more than we need
What goes around comes around
And around and around
And hateful young men
Turn to old hateful men
What goes around comes around
And around and around and
Hateful young men
Turn to old dead men
Ravenous and racing forward
Never looking back
We've killed more than we need
Gluttonous we feed on power
Never looking back
We've killed more than we need
Arrival in the night out of nowhere
Telling stories about a butcher, a living dead
I eat your flesh, take your strength
Absorb your spirit, I feel so strong
You're one of us, give in to it
Eat or die, eat or die
No, he was licking my wounds
No, his lips on my wounds
Stabbing, stabbing, stabbing, stabbing, I'll rip you to pieces
My ravenous hunger becomes a craving for more
No, he was licking my wounds
No, his lips on my wounds
Stabbing, stabbing, stabbing, stabbing, I'll rip you to pieces
My ravenous hunger becomes a craving for more
Ravenous, ravenous blood thirst in your eyes
Ravenous, ravenous, I hunger for your flesh
Ravenous, ravenous blood thirst in your eyes
Ravenous, ravenous, I hunger for your flesh
Drowning in darkness, you panic when life slips away
You gotta eat if you wanna be one of us
I eat your flesh, take your strength
Absorb your spirit, I feel so strong
You're one of us, give in to it
Eat or die, eat or die
No, he was licking my wounds
No, his lips on my wounds
Stabbing, stabbing, stabbing, stabbing, I'll rip you to pieces
My ravenous hunger becomes a craving for more
Ravenous, ravenous blood thirst in your eyes
Ravenous, ravenous, I hunger for your flesh
Ravenous, ravenous blood thirst in your eyes
Below the earth lies a serpent
Fire and brimstone
Remove the backbone
Say hello to sunshine
Wake up, you're baptized
The temple is me
Something to believe in
Is something to be
The evidence is all we taste
Under the skin the heart is pumping
What brought you to this?
Meat once was useless
Focus on the fiction
Lose sight of the vision
The temple is me
Something to believe in
Is something to be
The evidence is all we taste
Man makes changes
Man wants everything!
Man makes changes
Man wants everything!
I'm losing my mind, the hunger inside
Is tearing me apart
I'm a bottomless pit, no matter how much
I always crave for more
It's almost there within my reach
I'm getting closer all the time
I just got to feed the flames
I don't mind the spots and the stains
My flag is spangled with blood and brains
Inside of my veins, I'm feeling the pain
As I take another drink
I'm over the edge, I'm not coming back
Beyond the point of no return
It's almost there within my reach
I'm getting closer all the time
I just got to feed the flames
I don't mind the spots and the stains
My flag is spangled with blood and brains
I'm paying the price, but that's what I'm like
There is no other way
It's my sacrifice, that I'm gonna pay
This altar is for you
I don't mind the spots and the stains
My flag is spangled with blood and brains
I don't mind the spots and the stains
Walk with me through the mirror
come into my land
everything is upside down
let me take you by the hand
it`s a world with strange dimensions
and fires in the night
my people call themselves dark angels
they can see without a light
Mesmerized by the angels`eyes
you see their constitution
it`ll turn your life to the devil`s knife
that`s their retribution
Here your life will never end
dark angels will survive
but you don`t know the price
of eternal life
You can`t never leave this place
there`s no way out
so you will soon recognize
what`s this life about
Mesmerized by the angels`eyes
you see their constition
it`ll turn your life to the devil`s knife
you are lost between the worlds
you are lost inside yourself
all your faces I have seen
and yet you still surprise me
always thought I knew the person
always thought I knew you
but right now I must confess
that I know little of what you do
illusions rose up in my mind
illusions of our future
created a perfect world
but this world is without you
always thought I could help you
always thought you needed me
but since then I have learned
there was nothing I could do
CHORUS:
I walked the line and fell over
almost lost myself within
my world starts turning
creating a bastard existence
an abomination of flesh
assembeld in blasphemy
like a putrid caress
electrosurgical life
intestines now slither
like snakes betraying christ
[chorus]
piecing together
the puzzle of death
inhuman experiments
instilling corpsified breath
vital organs beating
desecrating nature's law
a forbidden knowledge
where is your god
empty graves are screaming
their utopia destroyed
the vacant maggot vessel
no longer a useless void
[chorus]
headless corpse
drained of life
zodiac reberth
catatonic posession
souls are dying
in the house of god
leper perversion
save your servant
[chorus]
vials of blood
precision death
shapeshifting from
ageless existence
infinite power
grotesque crusade
sleeping darkness
beyound the grave
parchment bleeding
a serpent's touch
angels mourning
skies rotting above
[chorus]
His soul cried and didn´t understand
how this power of feeling made him mad
like be born a second time
a circle of thinking was in his mind
He had given his heart
he had given her everything
every second, every heartbeat and everything at all
A chance to get thoughts of a better world
in the position to help him and everyone
No chance to live together in harmony
the problems around us tried to destroy
We had to fight together against
the stupied borders in our mind
There were love and hate, unconsciousness, tenderness
She was cought at the age of five
taken away from her family
will never again see the oceans
will never again be free
they put her in a small basin
that must have been like the hell
all for the sake of money
nobody asks her what she has to tell
This doesn´t have to be her fate
moving in circles every day
we must act now it´s not too late
the time is right, no more delay
she got pregnant for several times
but nobody thought her how to behave
so no-one of her childrean has survived
they were found dead in her cave
after thirty-two years she is still alive
mashine noises is there all night long
doing her show day after day
it´s not a good thing this is wrong
Screaming people are watching
when she breaches in her pool
but nobody thinks about her life
take life before it begins
abortion clinic a convent of sin
attempting to puncture the soft spot orb
terminate the brain before it can form
[chorus]
tiny fingers claw
embryonic tomb
killing the host
feasting from the womb
vaginal suffering fetal stress
umbilical cord severed
taking first breath
her stomach split open
flatlining heart
unwanted creation
a life torn apart
[chorus]
A drowning land
Somewhere far out
Cannot be reached
By mankind
Forever it has been
Like life on the edge
When our time comes
It will all fall apart
Heading toward our future
The millennium is soon to come
It will bring us many chances
That will affect our lives
For a thousand years
We were around
And kept the peace
That we had found
The seas of time
Are taking our land
Piece by piece
As it falls apart
Driven by the force
Of a higher god
We are only actors
ultraviolence - bower
deception of a useless whore
she got what she deserved
no more betrayel
as she rots in the morgue
dead cut open and redy to fuck
her limbs neatly severed
body turned inside out
her decapitated head
no tongue left in her mouth
dead cut open and ready to fuck
body fluids leaking
from stab wounds
sliced wide open
her vagina was removed
violated orafices
tongueless mouth and
cuntless cunt
by balls dripping
with her blood
[torso rape - Coralles]
dead cut open and ready to fuck
Only a moment of time
in the eyes of god
are these hundred years
since the wars has stoped
I remember big space ships
appeared in the sky
destroying our cities
with no reason at all
But after a day
their sips turned around
they disappeared
as fast as they came
Now they are back
there´s nothing to do
without protection
we won´t survive this time
With lethal weapons
they shoot us down
laser explosions
The love I felt for you
from the very first beginning
wasn´t built on solid ground
the lies teared us apart
just to turn back the clock
that would have been a chance
from all that was holy
if for nothing than for me
There was a bond between us
thought it would last forever
but the truth was overwhelming
when I saw sour other side
The hardest time I ever had
was the day I left paradise
my eyes start getting wet
everybody´s just telling lies
You made me feel at ease
so I didn´t recongnize
the things were going on
funeral rites observed
service is now complete
timeless words spoken
a ritual now deceased
body burning
starts to twitch
organ upheaval
from the stench
[chorus]
keep my grave open
I cannot rest
cadaver eyes still see
the pain is so intense
revolted by my flesh
green and rotting pus
white worms embrace
revel in disgust
[chorus]
I walk the Earth
in constant decay
savage chemical experiments
as I rot away
And I see the children dying
Rotten bodies all around
And I see me running away
Followed by my own fear
And I´m swimming in a lake
The seashore can´t be reached
And I see me above the clouds
There is no land in sight
And I see the soldiers fighting
Slaughtering on a parched field
And I see my mirror-image
Turning in a rotten face
And I see me in my dreams
Falling from a higher bridge
And I see you in my dreams
Weaping for my dying body
And I see us lying down
Holding us in our arms
And I see your naked body
scream, and beg; cry out so loudly
when you wake up in the night
another nightmare, an evil dream
of what there was, and always has been
see the monsters, see all the beasts
they hunt you down in the streets
so you will wake in cold sweat again
with a scream on your lips which makes you believe
ther was no friendly word
deep inside your heart of stone
you lived a life without joy, and fun
you always had a business to run
the dreams are the shadows of your past
they come to get you very fast
there's no escape now face the truth
[chorus]
the chemical imbalance
the craving begins
from the darkest depths
summon the beast within
gorephobik thoughts
images of the insane
I cut myself to embrace the pain
inflicting deep wounds
immaculate arteries awaken
primal rage continues
phantom limbs aching
[chorus]
sadomastic masturbation
nothing left inside
I've killed myself so amny times
[eazor dragging - Lilker]
drop by drop
I watch my life flee
from this shattered pile of freak
writhing insanity
If you go and swim far out
You will maybe meet the mermaids
They will take care for you
Bring you back to the shore
Dive deep down into the ocean
Feel the water on your skin
Like a fresh and rainy shower
On a hot midsummer day
Go down deeper and listen out
There is just silence which surrounds you
So relax and feel free
In these underwater gardens
Come with me to the sea
Here you will feel free
Let me show you peace and joy
A crying child in her mother`s arms
wrapped in a blanket to keep it warm
their whole life turned to a misery
but they lost all
they live on the streets for quite a while
cause their father died in a brutal fight
from their on they were on their own
nobody cares they were left alone
Now they are begging to get along
in these times they must be very strong
they have lost all except of their pride
they`ll never give up until they die
all what they have left is their faith
it is the hope for some better days
so very often they think of the past
gives them a feeling which never last
so what can we do
Luck's a chance but trouble's for sure
You will cry tears of fear and shame
When the message reaches you
Get awake and scream my name
My memorry goes white for a while
When the truck slammed my car
The diesel tank in it explode
Sending a fireball into the sky
It was a call from the hospital
Which reached you in the afternoon
Now you run into my room
Come to me while there is still time
Bring me to the last ferry
It will strengthen our bond
As far as the light could carry
And most likely far beyond
My eyeballs pulse in the sockets
Hear my heart beat as well
Feel the whoosh of my blood
They gave their souls away
With nothing to retrieve
Condemned for all eternity
They're seeking their relief
They left without remorse
Searching for their own luck
But all that they discovered
Was a hell within the earth
It was a contract with the devil
But the master can't be fooled
When he's got your soul
He'll use you as his tool
If they had a second chance
They would change a lot
But now it's much too late
And their lives were such a waste
CHORUS:
They are lost in the dark
Homeless in loneliness
Like a ravenous shark
You have lost your dignity
no more sense in life
a junkie of society
you have to beg for grace
Darkness surrounds you
the shadows disappear
your life is in his hand
he will take you in his land
your fear fades away
it is the time to leave
in the darkness of the night
he sits by your side
The traveller in the galaxy
the trades of your souls
without a face and thousand names
he has to do his dirty work
you look in his face
there´s just a black hole
a silent whisper in your mind
An ancient abbey on the field
Like a rock against the night
It will also be your shield
A room a glow by candlelight
Filled with the smell of peat
Men were sitting side by side
I can hear the preacher say
Your time will fly away
But eternity
Will remain forever
Time to regret your sins
The brothers all live in peace
Do their labor every day
Here they all feel at ease
This place could be everywhere
As well inside your home
You've been driven into hell
By necessity
What choice was there indeed
But consort with demons
There is a soulless man at your side
Who deals in blood and carnage
He looks you over with delight
Like a hunter at his catch
He stares at you with darkened eyes
Like polished onyx
What you offered was your soul
And now you have to pay
Now you have to remind yourself
That the world you've known is still out there
But there was no better offer
You had to leave it all behind
There is still so much to learn
About human cruelty
Never thought how far it goes
The starlight rains down upon us
As it has since the dawn of time
A meteor flash overhead
Leaves a brilliant orange scar
The time has come to make a wish
In the clear and moonless night
This wish will have an impact
On your ongoing life
Shooting stars light the night
They're all around us in the sky
I am dreaming of my future
While I sit here and watch the stars
Time passes by and the stars fade out
And with them go our dreams
The new day's sunlight takes us back
Bringing end to our great illusion
CHORUS:
Here comes your future
Your future in a shooting star
Take your heed
You have to follow
I have already seen it all
a thousand times before
gazing into outer space
where the timelines cross
far out and away from here
it pushes its way into the air
still a bit to surreal
but we bring the lies to life
it only exists within our minds
and so man created god
we tried to put it into focus
untill it became all too real
and still there is some kind of need
this idea came to life
still not completely understood
it unites and tears apart
CHORUS:
a man made force in our world
combines the evil and the good
religion is what we call it but isnt understood
it was created to give hope
but its caused so many wars
and it will bring so many more
A heavy rain sheared through the jungle
pattering on the glossy leaves
so ignore or accept it
when you walk your way
The rain caressed your face
with its pearly wet fingers
traces the contures of your chin
on the way down your skin
don´t ignore nature
see the sign
don´t ignore god
step out of the line
see the beauty
of the simple things
fly away
and spread your wings
raindrops of glittering water
dance on your clothes
you feel the warm moisture
when you walk your way
the rain is an good omen
it brings life to the jungle
it´s so cool and refreshing
confess your sins
upon the blood of christ
the lamb of god
a blank sacrifice
flesh comes ripping
from my touch
final communion
a homicidal fuck
murder only to repent
another dead nun
the crucifix bleeding
exhaling from her cunt
impotent god
the crown of thorns
the bastard child
is now srillborn
[chorus]
on your knees
like a dog
I am misery
perverted before god
stare into eyes
breeding madness
disciples worship
white trash messiah
darkness reveals
ritual complete
unseen hands
stained with sin
[bloodletting - Bower]
addicted to his image
unconditional love
induced by acid trips
orgy in dog's blood
crimson words
upon the wall
dead bodies decorate
stabbed womb fetus
raging twisted thoughts
a race war to ignite
promising salvation
a paranoid christ
addicted to his image
unconditional love
induced by acid trips
orgy in dog's blood
[pig slaughter - Reifert]
I can feel the anger grow
Deep inside my body
Just a little aching spot
Where my organs have been rotting
Everything is getting worse
The hate infects my soul
Right now the time's run out
And it starts all over again
All these idiots drive me insane
Treating me like air
They don't even know my name
Hate has taken control
Of by conscious action
Driven by this evil power
I swear I'll lose it all
There is still no end in sight
I think I'll lose this game
I am still fighting with myself
I don't want to wind up as a wingnut preacher
Rant like this, smell like that
I don't mean to make it as no money creature
Spend like that, bend like this
Just gotta be, just wanna be, just trying to be a little free
I just wanna be no monotony
You don't intend to turn out as a TV gobot
Spin like this, smile like that
Never dreamed of dropping as a deadbeat one-shot
Fold like that, coast like this
Just gotta have, just wanna have, just trying to have something to do
You just want to be every dream come true
[Chorus:]
All our lives every hour of every day
All our lives there's a shadow along the way
All our lives we pick a path through need and greed
All our lives cold winds blow and heavens bleed
They feed it and it doesn't eat
Knock it out, won't stay asleep
Beat it and it doesn't cry
They've killed it time again and it just won't die
Appetite
Always wanting more
No end in sight
Lord I want to make it as the star of my own show
Front like this, free like that
And I just hope we know when we should let it all go
Out like that, don't look back
Just gotta get, just wanna score, just hoping for a little more
We just gotta be what we are
[Chorus]
To the lonely ones may all dreams come true
Somewhere out there's a place for me and you
In the damp and in the dark and in the deep
There's a place to lay these old bones down to sleep
Cannibalized
Wild west
To eat humans
Time is best
You're a new man
Do you want to test
It's amazing what people eat
Everything from fat to meat
You are shocked about your guts
There aren't only pork and nuts
RAVENOUS
Human flesh
For some time
Cause some style
It's your prime
As cannibal meal
Do you think I am?
It's amazing what people eat
Everything from fat to meat
You are shocked about your guts
There aren't only pork and nuts
RAVENOUS
It started out as necessity, for my own survival to feed my starving body.
It was eat or die, and with every mouthful I felt myself gain strength.
Unrivaled.
This new sensation becomes more than addiction, it is my soul purpose.
I know that now I'm on the path to immortality, or at least as close as man
can ever get.
As I consume men who doubt and question my gift, their essence floods
my bones, their last breath fills my lungs.
I touched the face of perfection through devouring the imperfect.
I've come to wreak havoc upon this landTo feed this
hunger deep inside of me
A twisted mind for an empty soul
My body grows stronger and stronger
With each pulse pumping new blood
Into my ravenous veins
I'm looking at you
I'm wanting you more and more
I'm staring at you
Your neck and flesh draw me near
I must desist this brutal feeding
Ripping at me from the inside
Oh dear God, just let me control this
Before it becomes a mass homicide
You scream from inside
Your mouth is mute
A blindness through total darkness, rotten coffin embracing dust
Infinity of death insanity, brutality to rip the guts
Desirefull thought as hunger for flesh and bones goes more
Hanging corps on rusty hook to taste the smell to hear the worms
Raped carcass laying naked discharging burning lust
Embryonic body was fed its own heart
Ravenous ravens swallowing vomit, crunching skulls of dying men
A dissected liver was bitten row monstrously, when the brain was taken fresh
And fed to the most aggressive reptile.
The thirst for blood theory