“Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt” is the final track on De-Loused In The Comatorium. In this song, Cerpin has returned to the Comatorium, with Death both being impressed, but still jeering at him. An open-ending to the album. One cannot tell if Cerpin Taxt is dead or alone following the story's end. We might also see this as a loss of memory. It might be that these are his words as a final cry in the story. In a way, this could be a meta-device where

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