It also features, on one track, the first English lyrics by the lead singer, Jon Thor Birgisson, who usually sings in Icelandic (or occasionally Hopelandic, a gibberishlike invented tongue).

He had golden caps on his teeth.

Here you a muckworm of the town might see, / At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd, / Eat up with carking care and penurie; / Most like to carcase parch'd on gallows-tree.

English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79).