blended with the yellow red sand Before me are the steps that lead to virtual ascension A mystical technology The temple of dimensions The mysteries of Sumer
You can see the earth, we're high here Climbing over sumertown You can kiss the air, we're gliding Follow me for sumerland No sound life, no essence
I got my first real six string Bought it at the five and dime Played it til my fingers bled Was the summer of '69 Me and some guys from school Had
To be lost in endless mazes with no thread to lead me home As violent waves of doubt embrace me (but for them I'm all alone) All mysteries I thought I
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Nailed to a pleasant sleep Under the fullmoon light Calculated ancient knowledge Of Arab's wise words I dreamed about a temple I saw it in my dreams
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A silent secret of unfathomed darkness Uncounted years Within the temple walls Lightened up by the moon It's pale walls cold Entrance not allowed Guarded
He comes at night when the moon is worshipped A living evil on golden wings He comes to take me to the abandoned land The land where darkness is ablazed
In the fields of death at an hour of destruction the wind blew cold A vast field of tombstones and cenotaphs all moisture-stained As I walked across the
Deep down in the tombs Dried out and embalmed Royalties embedded Locked under a curse Powers of mortis Trapped in the talismans Shaman's evil spells Await
Born on a gloomy night Raised the evil way A son of an unnamed Born by freak Molten books, ancient scripts Dreadful tales of evil ways Interpred the child
Summer has come in sing loudly, cuckoo! Seed grows and meadows bloom and the wood springs forth anew. Sing, cuccu! The ewe bleats after the lamb the
[The Temples Of Offal 7"]
"Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing, cuccu! Groweth sed and bloweth med And springth the wude nu. Sing, cuccu! Awe bleteth after lomb. Lhouth after calve
you can see the earth we're high here we're climbing over sumertown you can kiss the air we're gliding follow me for sumerland no sound life no essence