Chelsea Grin - Sonnet of the Wretched
Time: 2:07
They felt the presence of your blackened heart
And smelt the stench of your abject existence
They've come to cleanse your soul of its affliction
abject
wretched; of the most contemptible kind
Heard in 29 songs (6.7M+ combined views) — most famously in "Sonnet of the Wretched" by Chelsea Grin.
Updated August 21, 2026
Songs Featuring “abject”
Hozier - Moment's Silence (Common Tongue)
Time: 0:55
Me and my babe relax and catch the manic rhapsody
All reason flown as God looks on in abject apathy
A squall and all of me is a prayer in perfect piety
Sodom - Baptism of Fire
Time: 1:24
Ptomaine, cremation – Baptism of fire, we'll not survive
Abject and spirited
Getting excessive with results
Swans - The Hanging Man
Time: 6:17
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Here I lie, abject
Healer, teeth are red
Fugazi - Rend It
Time: 1:51
My tasting face to the floor
Passive abject i'm sure
I lick my lips when I need it
Meshuggah - Violent Sleep Of Reason
Time: 1:13
This is not our war
Bury the abject shame in the same bile as our ideals
The potent lubricant to deceits grinding wheels
Protest the Hero - Plato's Tripartite
Time: 2:19
femininity infected with the illusion that choice, choice is...
Freedom is delicate, cracking under abject catastrophe.
Stronger than his prison bars are the bars around her memory.
Arca - Lost Woman Found
Time: 2:39
What it means to recognize the alien inside
The abject, erect
Hoping to let you go
Operation Mincemeat - A Glitzy Finale
Time: 3:27
There you are, good man
Right for the next take I need more abject adoration
If you want such an accurate replication
Planet Of Zeus - Baptized In His Death
Time: 1:11
We've Been Waiting For His Death
The Abjects, The Insane
Baptized In His Death
Of Montreal - So Begins Our Alabee
Time: 1:37
You're my only softness, you're my only pleasure, it's true.
And I never want to be your little friend, the abject failure.
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HENGE - Moon
Time: 0:38
However you find yourself
In poverty or abject wealth
Whenever it's opportune
AFI - Now the World
Time: 1:47
As I remained sleeping, I heard them say,
"This summer created, a boy, of abject misery."
He was designed by you.
Shirley Manson - Alien Inside
Time: 0:44
In the face of abject misery
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American Head Charge - Americunt Evolving into Useless Psychic Garbage
Time: 0:24
Revelations unkind
Abject denial of the flesh I feel
Endure and make my mark
Ulcerate - Yield to Naught
Time: 2:43
Witness the inversion
The reverent become the abject
Adopting blackened hearts
Carcass - Blind Bleeding the Blind
Time: 2:01
Bloody hands never wash clean
Abject misery to bleed
Decadence to feed
Vulgaires Machins - Obsolète
Time: 1:22
Je n'suis plus solidaire
Mon nihilisme est risible, et nuisible, et abject
Je recule, je regrette, je m'annule puis je crève
House of Heroes - The Invisible Hook
Time: 0:17
Living in apathy
We are living in abject poverty
You want a genocide?
Glass Beach - motions
Time: 0:54
Tallow taste on a forked tongue, not my problem
Hell is other people, damned to abject heads
I'll win the devil's favor, I'll wean myself off dread
Jenny Hval - The Revolution Will Not Be Owned
Time: 3:42
What lies by my bed, an impossible creature
Abject and succulent
A dream, a dream, a dream, a dream, a dream
Baths - The Sound of a Blooming Flower
Time: 2:28
Some beauty just annihilates
An abject failure of the brain
Some beauty just annihilates
Exhumed - Playing with Fear
Time: 1:23
Not your own
Tremble in abject terror
Chilled to the bone
Wire - Moreover
Time: 0:58
Linked hands and strolling through
Locked horns with abject crew
Winging and heading blind
The Posies - Everybody Is a Fucking Liar
Time: 0:39
There's no mercy here
A mercy killing of abject fear
Everybody is a fucking liar
Posies - Everybody Is A Fucking Liar
Time: 0:39
There's no mercy here
A mercy killing of abject fear
Everybody is a fucking liar
The Fall - Married, Two Kids
Time: 0:32
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Abject
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The Jesus and Mary Chain - Write Record Release Blues
Time: 0:15
I'm in my closet and I'm okay
Leave me in peaceful abject misery
I'm a young man now
Andrew Bird - Sweetbreads
Time: 3:44
Where a simple trip to the grocery store
Could fill you with an abject horror
Can you taste the misery of those crustaceans?
