The Pharaoh Sails to Orion Lyrics


"Get away from me!

Take heed to thyself

and see my face no more!

For in the day Thou see my face

thou shalt die!"

- Exodus 10:28

A constellation of divine

architecture built on earth.

A holy harbour, Orion,

nautical ascension to the firmament.

Ship-shaped barrows open my heart

to the wisdom of this land.

Sailing with the Serpent Chimera

of a fiendish sandman.

The unicorn arrives with

the westwind to dream my funeral.

"Thou art born

for Horus dwells in thee."

Slumbering with the ebb

and the flow of this foaming tomb.

"Thou art born

for Seteh dwells in thee."

Reveal your face to me and guide me

through the Stygian fields.

Enthral my soul to Sepedet's beams

to serve your will.

Sailing on the distant seas

from darkness to deliverance.

Tales like the ocean

written to the Draco's glance.

Ruling with the scythe of death,

you tear our philosophies apart.

An ancient starwalk

to merge into the stars!

"Open thy veins for my venom,

kiss the cobras with thy twisted tongue.

So shalt thou join the empyrean circus,

where beggars mourn and seraphs dance.

In this twilight cathedral

shall I wed thee,

O' Bride of the Netherworld!"

Sailing on the distant seas

from darkness to deliverance.

Tales like the ocean

written to the Draco's glance.

Ruling with the scythe of death,

you tear our philosophies apart.

An ancient starwalk,

join my soul the Hunter in the sky!