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Two Third Divine
One Third Human
Forged by Aruru
From Earth and Godly Seeds
Perfection in Stature…
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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7. |
7 - The Quest (Part I)
06:31
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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
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8 - The Quest (Part II)
04:25
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9 - The Great Deluge
07:15
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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”
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10 - Mortal You Shall Be
02:20
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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)
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