1. |
Prologue
03:29
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2. |
...And They Rode West
06:13
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(LEAD: G. WOODS)
My kith and I
Are above the law
Ride into the night
’Til the rise of Ra
He with the gavel
Calls us Desperado
For he knows not
The kiss of the crocodile
(LEAD: C. EGAN)
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3. |
"The Saloon"
01:47
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4. |
Knives And Teeth
05:29
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Cold winds slither up our spines
Cold sands hiss and intertwine
Endless reaching charcoal sky
Ageless cosmic crimson eye
Watches as we draw our knives
Cautious as we spill our life's blood
Sobek’s Blood
Sobek's Sacred Hawthoria, Oh!
Ancient Panacea, Oh!
The Ritual Invokes the will to Power, Oh!
(LEAD: G. WOODS)
Obsidian, Ophidian
Knives and teeth
Tearing through my skin
Fill my Body, Fill my Brain
With unbound fury
Immune to pain
Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek
He Who Makes The Herbage Green
Opens eyes to the unseen
The teeth that sink into your soul
To pull you down and swallow whole
The Teeth that Sink
Into Your Soul
To Pull you Down
And Swallow Whole
White-Toothed One
Green of Plume
Destroyer
We bow to You!
(LEAD: C. EGAN, G. WOODS)
He Who Makes The Herbage Green
Opens eyes to the unseen
Within this realm of blood and flesh
Amorphous visions coalesce
The Teeth that Sink
Into Your Soul
To Pull you Down
And Swallow Whole
White-Toothed One
Green of Plume
Destroyer
We bow to - You!
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5. |
The River Black
07:33
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Kephra rises from beneath
Eternal struggle of the scarab deity
Casting aside the curtain of Nuith
Passing to Re the gift of eternity
Sphere of fire awakens me
The unforgiving flame
This aching mind not ready to see
I turn my head in shame
Sobek where is your river grand?
Nothing but thirst grows on this desolate plain
They said I would find you past this burning sand
With more of your gift to numb the pain
No more sleep, for I am awake
My friends, my brothers, our horses wait
Headdress of feathers - mine to take
With bloody palms, we choose our fate
Smoking fire from the night
Wipe the charcoal from our eyes
My hand, my pockets, filled with sand
Long ride ahead boys, lets cut our hands
Behold the repetition
Your mind’s submission to the pain
Become the thing you dream
A being supreme to the profane
Believe the power you grip
Watch the blood drip from thy sacred vein
Beware thy chosen physic
Feeds the orphic reptile brain
Across this barren waste we ride with pride
Fueled by this reptile divine
Westward nothing lives
Ashen bones, the only thing in sight
We’ll pass the sunset like the old man said
Sobek, I’ll find your river grand
Scorching sun, merciless one
Beware exhaustion
A horse has fallen
The river glistens but the light is bleak
We have reached the bottom lands
We lost a horse, we burnt the breeze
To stick a cactus in our hands
(LEAD: C. EGAN)
The river’s swift, yes the river’s strong
I see the eyes of cowards scream
I will not douse these lights, here I belong
With bloody palms, I’ll cross this stream
(LEAD: G. WOODS)
Crashing waves cleanse your wounds
These gnashing teeth will show you truth
Count your stars there’s no going back
Once you’ve come this far across the river black
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6. |
"A Bone of Contention"
01:58
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7. |
Bridges Burn
04:33
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Awake my prey it’s time to see
Yourself in my void of mortality
Against the odds, you have arrived
In this place, in this time, with your body, and your mind
You wish to scream but fear the sound
Silence deafening save the hearts heavy pound
Nerves swim, fast breath
Can’t shake the sense, of imminent death
(LEAD: C. EGAN)
You binge, you purge, can’t resist the urge
To bury your life in debauchery and lies
(LEAD: C. EGAN)
Your words they slip like diarrhetic shit
You grasp to grip on past and present
You stand amazed, the entropy you’ve made
The backs they turn, bridges they burn
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8. |
Brother In Blood
08:19
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Your eyes are open wide
Staring deep into mine
I grip the dagger’s hilt
Slipping the knife inside
Thrusting black blade
Gasping last breath
Reaching sweet death
Rapture
Gripped by delirium
Morbid elysium
Taking another’s life
Am I reptilian?
Savage bloodshed
Your blood flows out
My blood goes cold
Brother
See what you’ve made me do
Stripping this life from you
All for this holy drug
That I need more than you
Know this you’ll live
You’ll live once more
Once more in death
In death
In the throes of egomania
“He who watches” truly watches me
With yellow eyes floating in The River Black
As I seize your bloody corpse, and drag you to your tomb
Drag you to your tomb
This yawning chasm in the earth,
Once opened by Ptah, has summoned me
Dear brother you won’t need
That last fix of sweet green
Devoured by darkness
I’ll offer your carcass to Sobek
As an advocate of the afterlife
This is justified human sacrifice
Know this
You’ll live
Once more
In death
(LEAD: C. EGAN)
Voices echo in my mind
Calling me towards these swirling shadows
Ancient figures in the mire
Beckon me to follow
There’s not far left to go
Dear departed desperado
Ba and Ka shall reunite
In Se-akh I will manifest your rebirth
As an advocate of the afterlife
This is justified human sacrifice
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9. |
Enter The Wabet
03:26
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Dripping shadows
Blood and incense
In the twilight
Deathlike presence
Anubis howls
Enter the wabet
Place of purity
Obsequious rites
Performed in obscurity
The cult watches on
Perforate the cranium
Ichorous encephalon
Abdominal dissection
Lord of secrets oversee
Sacred spells on papyri
Innards placed In canopic jars
To send your akh towards the stars
Sons of Horus guard these guts
Lungs, liver, stomach, and intestines
Ascend! Go forth!
Westward to the field of reeds
The Great Ennead await thee
Soon they too shall come for me
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10. |
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Lifeless body lies before me
Putrid, pungent, pale, and petrified
Bloody picture, sanguine painting,
Dripping poniard, what have I done?
Priests of Sobek, drums and incense
Did you take him, where have you gone?
All alone, cold and hollow
Beams of sunlight, entice my eyes
I stand at the mouth of terror
Re above me, death behind me
I’ve come so far empty handed
Useless journey, left with nothing
Shed these worthless rags from my back
Replace them with lacerations
Gateways for this damned elixir
Succulent serum, squeeze it tightly
Downhill towards the east I run
Your shifty face I’ll see again
False prophet look what you have done
Your words were lies you knew old man
My kith breathless no oasis
Had you spoke true I would not have killed them
One egress lies ahead
Into the waves of the Great River Black
Dare defeat, vast and deep
Stygian snake slithers over my feet
As a guttural voice bellows up from beneath
Come to me! I am the one!
Lord of the Waters, Jaws of Creation
Bow to me! Helpless one!
In Sekhem, my oblation
To your brothers I will take you
Your next incarnation
Here you stand
Broken soul
In the hall of the dead
Why have you come here?
Anubis takes your heart
Filled with emptiness
Ma’at sits atop
Was it worth all this?
Steady the scale
Heavy with greed
To be weighed against the feather
Did you think you would live forever?
Your descending heart
Fueled by addiction
Devoured by the beast
To the great nothing
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11. |
"Offhand Remarks"
00:57
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12. |
To The Stars
04:32
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