Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Atlantis Ascendant, artist - Bal-Sagoth. Date of issue: 15.04.2001
Song language: English
Atlantis Ascendant |
| 10 October: 1893 |
| The inscriptions on the tablet I discovered seem to be a fragmentary piece of |
| some mysterious, perhaps apocryphal, larger work; |
| evidently a lexicon of some |
| description, undoubtedly of antediluvian origin. |
| The first section, |
| as far as I can discern, tells of an era thousands of years past when |
| countless great and advanced civilisations, apparently with the legendary |
| Atlantis foremost amongst them, spanned the circumference of the globe. |
| The initial passage, seemingly a celebration of Atlantis Ascendant carved by a |
| renowned chronicler of the day, speaks thusly: |
| The Chronicler of Antediluvia: |
| Long ago, before the Third Great Cataclysm reshaped the face of creation, |
| one nation rose above all others in the antediluvian world… Atlantis |
| This jewel in the azure sea, Atlantis Ascendant! |
| Pax-antediluvia, Atlantis Ascendant! |
| Kingdoms rise and empires fall, Atlantis Ascendant! |
| Pax-antediluvia, Atlantis Ascendant! |
| The prophecy… the prophecy! |
| What price may the gods demand?! |
| (Ancient) prophecy carved in stone, (countless) aeons past by hands unknown |
| Winged fiends scream forth attack, carnage as the sun burns black! |
| The Sage Counsel: Doomed… doomed! |
| The end is nigh! |
| The Host of Z’xulth: Your realm is lost… it shall be devoured by the sea! |
| The Sage Counsel: The worm comes, riding the ravening oceans… the Outer |
| Darkness disgorges its horrors! |
| It is foretold… Atlantis shall be destroyed! |
| The Atlantean Quorum: |
| Hear the call Atlanteans, proud we stand forever |
| Mightiest of warriors, we sail across the sea |
| Conquering the ancient world, a legacy eternal |
| Raise the arcane sigil high, steel and sorcery! |
| Blessed with immortality, dreaming spires of majesty, glory crowns our destiny! |
| The Host of Z’xulth: |
| Your realm is lost… it shall be devoured by the sea! |
| The Chronicler of Antediluvia: |
| And so it was written in the stars, astride the world would stand the children |
| of Atlantis! |
| And yet disturbingly, another voice, a wholly darker and more malevolent |
| presence, can be perceived lurking within the ancient body of the inscriptions, |
| an ominous tone which prophesizes doom and ruination for the Atlantean realm, |
| speaking of a disastrous cataclysm foretold in the stars when the sun would |
| burn black and the agents of some unfathomable evil would besiege Atlantis, |
| ultimately compelling the seas to rise and devour the continent, |
| leaving no trace of the glory which once was. |
| These passages seem to have been |
| deliberately obscured, and this fact combined with the passage of countless |
| aeons and the embrace of the eternally shifting sands lamentably prevents me |
| from translating the inscriptions on the fragment any further |