mortify

humiliate; practice self-denial of one’s body and appetites

Heard in 17 songs (83M+ combined views) — most famously in "Balls to the Wall" by Accept.

Updated August 18, 2026

Songs Featuring “mortify

Accept - Balls to the Wall

Time: 1:53

You may sacrifice them too

You may mortify their flesh

You may rape them all

Accept - Balls to the Wall

Yaung - Feel

Time: 2:28

So let's have a toast, and enjoy the show

I Fortify my pockets, mortify these muppets

They live to hate but their hate to live is the largest

Yaung - Feel

Dark Tranquillity - Insanity's Crescendo

Time: 3:16

When it's found, can judgement make amends?

From force-fed impressions, let us mortify the mind

Each soul to violate, each instinct to be rendered false

Dark Tranquillity - Insanity's Crescendo

2 Chainz - Lost Kings

Time: 0:32

I been thinkin' like a trapper since the pacifier in the mix like Jambalya

When I was 38, I'll 45 ya, mortify ya

More money I make, more stuff I buy

2 Chainz - Lost Kings

Gillian Welch - Scarlet Town

Time: 0:25

I don't mind a lean old time or drinking my coffee cold

But the things I seen in Scarlet Town did mortify my soul

I look at that deep well

Gillian Welch - Scarlet Town

Cradle of Filth - Swansong for a Raven

Time: 1:24

With shared disdain

For those I chose to mortify

Their cries

Cradle of Filth - Swansong for a Raven

Lil Wayne - Yoda

Time: 2:21

Vaders!

Frighten and mortify that fine tongue did

Strikin and score the hi that rhyme gun is

Lil Wayne - Yoda

PJ Harvey - August

Time: 2:01

Twiddicks sigh

Child and season mortify

PJ Harvey - August

Zac Flewids - Jupiter

Time: 0:55

I don't want to talk addiction or the ends or the means

But the honey that i'm licking probably mortify the bees

And the deity I worship only bless if I sneeze, aye

Zac Flewids - Jupiter

Mortician - Necrocannibal/Outro

Time: 2:56

Rip out all the brains

Mortify the helpless corpse

Eat all the fucking remains

Mortician - Necrocannibal/Outro

Talib Kweli - Palookas

Time: 1:59

Immortal, I'm bustin' at the cops like Mordecai

The sort of guy to mortify these

Clown ass rappers standin' for the five live

Talib Kweli - Palookas

Aborted - Avenious

Time: 0:26

Manipulate (manipulate)

Mortify and maim

Join the lack of anything

Aborted - Avenious

Incantation - Unholy Massacre

Time: 1:49

Entrant the souls, destroy the bodies.

Kill the sacred ones, mortify them all.

Feel the pain, as the blood is drained.

Incantation - Unholy Massacre

Jaxamilli - Prayer Works

Time: 1:06

Like Akon and Young Jeezy, be a soul survivor

What's done in the dark comes to light, it might mortify ya

When it's all said and done, what's gon be your story?

Jaxamilli - Prayer Works

Kabwasa - Midnight Shift

Time: 0:22

That boy imposter but you're dealin' with the realer guy

You wanna try it I got ya I'm here to mortify

I make em wish they never started with this rappin' life

Kabwasa - Midnight Shift

SPIIRAL - SOLACE.

Time: 0:56

Bodies racking all around me

Mortify all I'm maiming, yuh

Couldn't give a fuck what they're saying

SPIIRAL - SOLACE.

dance arts center - video

Time: 1:40

Is it all inside you?

Does the archive mortify you?

Is it all?

dance arts center - video