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Ellil's Wrath
01:15
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2. |
Preserver of Life
04:50
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I was bound by oath to keep such words from your mortal ears.
Simple man of clay and blood, listen well:
Waters will rise, a genocidal flood
So take your home apart
And construct an ark
Roof it so the sun you shall never see
Large enough to hold two of every beast
The rains will come, and you shall find no shore
And then he left as quickly as he came,
My head spun trying to contemplate
Everything and everyone I've cared for
To be destroyed by the overflow
Soon to be washed, and smashed against the rocks
By the god I once adored.
Now you betray me, how dare you betray us all?
Prepare for nothing short of desecration (annihilation)
The birds who circle the sky
will have nowhere left to Roam.
"And Ellil watched from the heavens, with great pleasure. Consumed by thoughts of destroying the creatures no longer worthy of the life they had been given, a decision was made. Mankind’s noise had become too much."
From the heavens he watched, consumed by destruction.
From the heavens he watched, mankind’s noise was too much.
Drought and plague are mere amusements
in comparison of what's to come
Drought and plague are mere amusements
His will shall be done
I will build my Preserver of Life.
I will not cower from this pain
Though I may be clay and blood,
I beseech you Ellil, bring forth your rain
Your rain!
Your words have reached my mortal ears.
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3. |
The Deluge
06:26
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You are pathetic
Years ago, we carved out the Tigris and Euphrates
And now they will flood the land, destroying earth’s pestilence.
You made me eradicate my greatest work
All of my labors mean nothing to you
For too long I have been assaulted by your kind,
The rains will wash you out.
For too long I have been assaulted by your kind,
Like the ants you scatter, just to fucking drown.
Just to fucking drown.
The water will swallow you just as Nirah swallows the rats
The winds will resound
A symphony vociferous
The sun partitioned from your eyes
The winds will resound
A symphony vociferous
Do not disavow your finality
Gasp for breath, the waves come crashing in
Your lungs fill with water, cry out for air.
Gasp for breath, the waves come crashing in.
Your lungs fill with water, cry out!
Composed by Enki's request,
he fed you when I plagued the lands
he begged me not to flood you
Welcome to your demise
I used to accept your offerings
but now I will sacrifice you and your unbearable kind.
Accept that you are to be demolished in the sea
An end to this has come.
For too long I have been assaulted by your kind,
The rains have washed you out.
For too long I have been assaulted by your kind,
Atrahasis, why did you not drown?
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4. |
Clarity Through Storms
03:37
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5. |
Mount of Salvation
04:56
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I stand amidst a ruptured earth
That you tried so hard to destroy
For seven days I did not know if the water was surging or descending
I thought I would never see the sun again
The light partitioned from my eyes
You are a God to man, yet I was formed from the Gods
And the clay you spat upon
As if I was nothing to you
I denied you sleep
So you begrudged my existence with your pathetic attempts
You call yourself a God? You’re a goddamn insignificance.
I bow to no one.
Even in the midst of perdition,
I still have found a way to stand against you
And though I now have nothing, I will persist
With every breath I have left to take
I’ve struggled to stay undaunted
But it is no longer my choice
I am exhausted
Nothing but an exile
In a world I don’t belong
A vagabond with no possessions
Nothing but an exile
In a world I don’t belong to
Wayfaring stranger
The winds and rain have ripped everything apart
Despite being so broken
I am not defeated
I will not rest until I destroy you
I will not cease until you have felt my pain
This world is broken, and destroyed
I walk upon its spine
Like the ancients did before
With no direction
I wander alone
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6. |
Where the Rivers Collide
05:01
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Send the one who has suffered me
I will meet him at the joining of the rivers
At the banks of the waters that raged to destroy this wretched Earth
I will bestow a gift none but the gods have ever possessed
And though I hated the drone of man, the incessant noise
Atrahasis has survived
what even the gods cowered from
He continues to endure
His pertinacity makes him worthy
He is worthy.
Elil, why am I here after willing my dismissal
Is it not enough for you to deface the world?
Is it not enough for the gods to cower at your feet
You malicious sadist, your capriciousness makes you a worthless tyrant
But you cannot rid so easily of me
You cannot rid of me
I do not understand why
for seven days you made my question my existence.
Why for seven days did you make me question my existence?
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS SPOKEN WORD
What I did may seem cruel to you
I only wished to rid of your noise and so,
I allowed the floods to consume you
The earth is quiet now
You have prevailed
I have brought you here
To receive a gift unlike any other
It has been reserved for a worthy man
You are that man
Here’s the one who has suffered me
We finally unite at joining of the rivers
Do you wish for a place amongst the gods,
Do you wish to become a God?
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7. |
Divine Assembly
01:49
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8. |
The Gift of Immortality
05:23
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I was beaten by the rains and suffered the rivers
While you were consumed by the hatred, committed to me
all was destroyed
rendering me an exile.
Nothing to live, all was destroyed, your global genocide.
Every attempt to rid of me was made
One man in the shadow of the gods
One man in the shadow of the gods
One man, alone
The overwhelming scent from the rotting of flesh
were all that I knew
As I the only left, made my way to survive
deemed worthy of eternal life
It is no gift as you may believe
to be immortal is a burden
Even sadness ends for most
mine is recurring
The dead can escape their mistakes
But I belabor them
Nothing but a slave to the gods
I’ve never regretted life
Nothing but a slave to the gods
I would embrace death now
I would rather die a thousand times
Than to bow at your feet and worship the god
who destroyed the world
Everything that I love, gone
There is nothing but suffering now
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9. |
Worship the Ancient
06:40
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Goddamn you.
I regret nothing I have done to you
You are naught but a pitiful annoyance
Plaguing the lands just as your noise plagued my ears
the nights I lay awake
Insane with insomnia
I could not take it any longer
And despite the plea from Enki
I concluded there would only be peace
Through suffering
Not mine of course, but yours
And now my world is at ease
Is it maddening to know
that I destroyed the world?
Everyone in it, but you.
And after wandering
Scraping along the earth
Vultures waited to pick your bones
you denied me
cursing the gods
With every step you took
Despite survival
Now immortal, to bow at the feet
of the god who vowed to destroy you?
Keeping you to serve the gods proves just as sentimental
you cannot escape your divine decree
the earth is mine
you are mine
and I shall do as I fucking please
The Earth bends to my will
Everything in it, my creations
Will fall to their knees, and serve the god
My creations will fall to their knees and the serve the god.
Serve the god who created the world, and destroyed it.
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Ben Simon Ottawa, Ontario
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