We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Gilgamesh (The Quest for Immortality)

by Lagrima

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
Two Third Divine One Third Human Forged by Aruru From Earth and Godly Seeds Perfection in Stature…
2.
Abuser of Men … Valor in Strength Abuser of Maidens … Right of Kings Plead of Mothers … Gods would hear Gods will Create … A Wild Man That Feeds And Runs with the Beasts … A Rival he Would Be The Name He’ll Obtain … Enkidu Shall it Be Demolisher of Hunters’ Traps Terror Fills Their Hearts Gilgamesh Consult “A Harlot That Tames the Wildest of Men” Naked She Stood Her Charmes she Offered Six Days Seven Nights In Her Delights Enkidu Indulged But no More the Beasts … By His Side Ran More Human He Turned … Less an Animal He is The Pleasures He Learnd … Reasoning He Gained Tales of Majestic … City and its King Abuser of the People … By that Ruling Man A Challenge that Will … Lure Him More and More As she Tempts Him Out Into a Hut they Stay She Grooms Him, Prepares Him For Man Now He is Enkidu ate bread The Staff of Life Beer he drank The Custom of the Land Behind the footsteps (of the harlot) Passing the gates of Uruk Crowded the people astounded A true rival has arrived As celebrations were underway and sacrifices are made Ceremonies and prays the fertility ritual was to begin Face to face their sights met eye to eye … An Evil Ignites Enkidu, the way of Gilgamesh he blocks In Frenzy the Fight Has Begun As Mighty Men They Griped Shoulder to Shoulder the Temple Way Under Their Valor it Shook But Gilgamesh Who Went for the Pin His Foot on the Ground Declairs His Win Yet, Hate is no More, But Admiration “Exalted You Above All Of Men Enlil Has Granted you Kingship Over His People”
3.
A New Undertaking Far into the Distant Mountains Where the Majestic Cedar Trees Grows High and Tall But a Fearsome Beast Stands Guard Horrifying Set by the Gods themselves Planting Fear in Hearts of Men His Cry is the Roar of the Floods His Jaw is Fire, His Breathe is Death And Seven Fearsome Weapons his to use Guardian he stands, Fearsome Tiresome he is A Tribute to Ishtar The Guardian of Uruk A Tribute from Man to God A Great Door he will build in her Honor Weapons they Forge Blades Axes and Swords Forged so Only Heroes can Handle Forged so Only Heroes can Bear Before the Journey Begun Before the Warriors Could Venture on The Oracle of Fate should be Summoned The Oracle of Fate should Foretell their Fate A Sacrifice to Offer And Blood to Predict A Dark Fate Lies Ahead But our King is Undiscouraged So the Journey Begun The Trip of Heroes on the Way Fast they Travel, to the Mountains, Where the Cedars Grow And Magical Dreams Of What Awaits them Gilgamesh to Enkidu Would Express First a Dream of Mountains The First one Collapse Upon Him A Second Embrace Him And a Third that Erupts But as His Friend Explains The Guardian who will be Defeated Unrelenting they Press on Unfearing Up the Mountains they Climb Mesmerized by its Grandeur At the Edge of the Woods they Stand A Path they Noticed Will Lead them Into the Heart of the Forest By the Trail they Strive Weapons Set Ready to Use No Sound and no Sign The Beast Before them Appears and Speakes “A Barbarian Opponent Of no Blood Line Spawn of Animals” to Enkidu I Say And to you Gilgamesh I say “Your Head I Should Rip And the Buzzards and Vultures On Your Rotting Carcass they Forage Urging… Each… Other … To Confront (Fight) The Time of Glory Has Come to Fight As One Man They Stand Strong As One Man They Shall Take Him Down As the Sun God, Gives His Hand in Help All Winds of the Hill, North South East (and) West Moaning Blasting Lashing, Contray Dust Swirling All Circling the Beast, He Could not Charge nor Retreat Coming… Upom… Him with no Fear Defeated, no Escape Trapped Their Prisoner He’s Become, Down on His Knees His Fate is Held by the Brave King’s Hands Begging, Crying, Bleeding, the King he Asks Spare my Life, and a Slave for you I’ll be But Enkidu Those Words He Utters Behead, Behead, Behead the Beast Doomed, a Curse He Unleashed Upon These Words, the Struck of the Axe Slayed, the Cedars Down are Cut A Wooden, Door, to Ishtar they Errect
4.
Back at the Palace in the King’s Court Bathed and Cleaned Prepared for the Night A Divine Manifestation Disturbs the Air None but the Goddess The Majestic Ishtar Proposing Divine Marriage Him and Her Lords in Heaven Offering all Wealth and Power Eternally Side by Side But to a wise man’s Ears Her words Uttered His Awareness Of What She’s Done To Her Past Husbands and Lovers And the Cruel Destiny They Lay in Now One by one and Forgetting None On Her Ears Their Fate Recites So Gruesome So Horrible Unimaginable Unthinkable Demuzi, First Love Rotting In the Mud of the Netherland Roller Bird, Majestic in Flight Broke his wings, Deprived of Flight The Lion, in Strength compared to non In a Cage Imprisoned now he Lives The Stallion, Faster than the Wind In a Stable he is, a Fate for Mules The Shepherd, another losse another curse Into a Wolf, on His Herds He Feed Ishallanu, Gardner of the Gods A Scarecrow he is, Stuck in His Field As for Me… What Shameful… Fortune… You Kept… AAAAAARGH!!!!!! Harshly the Words Fell on Ishtar’s Ears Filled Her with Anger and Rage The Goddess Ascended to the Heavens With Revenge in Her Heart to Fulfill In Her Father’s Presence She Stands Anu Father of Us All Weeping in lament, The Insults She heard A Punishment She Demands The Bull of Heaven I command To Strike Them Down To Put Them Down Seven Years Of Famine thry get Or I Let the Dead Walk Up the Earth Down it Came Racing for the Kill Destroying All Killing All The Heroes confront Enkiu Slows it Down Gilgamesh Slices it Up A Dagger in the Neck Off its Heart they Pulled To Shamash they present Ishtar from Above She Wailed Oh She Wailed Enkidu In Rage He Would Threatens Her In Death He Did A Parade merriment For All Men All the Night Enkidu Goes to Sleep And have a Dream His Fate Would See His End will Be
5.
In the Darkness of the Night A Dream Came to my Mind In the Realms of Visions A Revelation by them Gods A Vision from the Court Council of the Gods A Decree… That is Passed… One of Us must Die Cutting the Cedar Tree Enraged the Gods Killing the Bull of Heaven Enraged the Gods A Tear in Enkidu’s Eye A Tear in Gilgamesh’s Eye And the Two… Brothers… In Sorrow… Sat Down… Cursing… Swearing… All His Luck… (Heart Full of ) Regret… (The) Night Passes With Silence First Glimpse Of Dawn Cursing the Hunter Life of Poverty Cursing the Harlot A Life of Shadows Cursing the Time He was Begotten And a Friend by his Side Weeps Him Too His Voice Travels Far And Falls upon Shamash the Sun God Observer of Us All calming Enkidu With Fairness of His Voice Worry not… My Son… All shall be sound… Upon Hearing Those Words Changed in Manner He Became Anger left his heart Restful his mind Again Blessing the Gods Once More stilled His tongue Another Night… Another Dream… Another Vision of Destiny… Illness Grew Worse Death Seems Near Twelve Days of Pain Death Came With a Smile Farewell With Tears Mourning Once More The End Have Come His Body So Cold A Great Friend Is Now Gone A Memory only lingers on
6.
7.
Letting his hair grows wild Dressed only a lion’s skin And roamed through the lands In search of the man Roamed to find the man Who survived the ancient flood Blessed by the gods He can’t die no more Fear of death Loss of friend Search for enduring life No matter what No matter where To the end of the earth gates of the setting sun guarded by the scorpion men Will they grant him passage? Will he be free to pass? His part divine would be the key To pass through the gates where the dome of heaven reaches high above Fear of death Loss of friend Search for enduring life No matter what No matter where To the end of the earth Run… Run… Faster than the sun Run… Run… tunnel of the sun Run… Run… Twelve hour time Run… Run… Reach the other side Run… Run… Faster than the wind Fly… Fly… Swift like a bird There… There… Light at the end Here… Here… Outrun the sun Through the sea of death Three nights and days Till Dilmun is in sight Where Utanapishtim dwells Where his quest ends Beaten broken tired His wish hopes to be fulfilled The gift of endless life The way of defeating (cheating) demise “Would like to know the tale Of how you survived” Of how your race drowned Of how the world sank Beaten broken tired Down he sat listening A story of beginnings A story of ends
8.
9.
The cries of men Their Sins Deafened the ears of the heavens Displeased the Gods Disturbed their sleep Something evil shall be done Gods assembled Sworn to secrecy To decide the fate of Man A great flood A calamity To wipe out the sons of man But Ea God of wisdom Other thoughts crossed this mind Whispered to me Spoke through the reeds A dream a vision, I can see Build an ark Save your family And all the animals You can take Its dimensions I shall give In one week You should build No one else You can save All races of men Shall perish Your excuse For them The gods Wants to banish me At dawn It began Black clouds arose Adad Inside Rumbling, thundering Before him came Shullat and Hanish Harbingers of death The gates Of floods Wide open The winds Gust Smashing all In its way All is lost Feared From what They have done Cowardly They Ascending back Crouching like Cowering dogs The goddess Ishtar Weeping, morning The horrors Infront Of her eyes For six days For seven nights Immortal then I should become Never to fear death again This secret you seek I shall (reveal) Hidden in the sea it would be As he bathed On the journey back A snake snatched and ate his plant For the flesh turns to dust Only monuments of stone will last “And deeds of ancient men That are only written down Will pass the test of time To tell of what had passed”
10.

credits

released April 5, 2018

Ayman Ayvaal Alloush (Vocals)
Tarek Yazbek (Guitars, Bass, Drum Machine)

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Lagrima Lebanon

Lagrima was formed back in 2003 with the following line up: Tarek Yazbek(guitars),
Chebel Yassine (vocals), Elie Rizk (bass), Ellio Rahbani (Drums). Since then the band
line up has changed continuously due to a different reasons . Now the band consists of
the following line up : Tarek Yazbek (Guitars), Bilal Al-Aghar (Vocals)
... more

contact / help

Contact Lagrima

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Lagrima, you may also like: