Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur, artist - Bal-Sagoth.
Date of issue: 15.04.2001
Song language: English
The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur |
It was like some dark, dark dream. |
We had not heeded |
The warnings of the ancients, and now we would pay the price… here, within |
The catacombs of Ur |
Lost within the lightless catacombs of Ur… Entombed within the ziggurats! |
Trapped forever in the catacombs of Ur… |
Your screams are heard in Babylon! |
Warnings etched into the cuneiform tablets of Ur… |
Entombed within the ziggurats! |
Behold the great Cthonic deities of Ur… |
Your screams are heard in Babylon! |
Here, beneath the eternally shifting sands, I sought |
Enlightenment… but found only damnation! |
You have defiled the sanctity of this sacred place! |
Ancient before the Fifth Cataclysm, here |
Between the two rivers in Ur the Dreamer waits! |
And when the seal of the |
Seventh city is broken, then shall the dreamer in the catacombs of Ur awaken! |
Forsaken (when His darksome splendorous glory eclipses it) burns the sun |
Enthrone (the eternally) benighted one, Usurper of the skies |
Named in (that black, shunned tome of) forbidden lore |
Destined to rule (this telluric sphere and the myriad stars beyond) once more |
The Dreamer shall arise! |
Now, let the Gate yawn wide and the horrors of the Abyss engulf the earth, for |
The Dreamer in the catacombs is risen! |
How many of my colleague’s rants were merely the result of his psychosis and |
How many were actually born of fact, I cannot discern… nor in truth do I |
Wish to |
I have long felt the celebrated map of Admiral Piri Reis, which quite |
Astoundingly depicts the continent of Antarctica in a state wholly free |
Of the ice which has bound it ceaselessly since time immemorial, to be of |
Far wider and more resonant implications to humanity than the proud echelons |
Of the scientific community will ever dare admit. |
I believe that beneath the |
Ice-veiled surface of that southernmost continent lie the remnants of time-lost |
Civilisations which were ancient even before fabled Atlantis sank beneath |
The waves. |
Indeed, further translation of the sigils engraved into the |
Antediluvian artefact has imbued my oft derided theory with an unmistakable |
Aura of veracity. |
Piecing together the fragmentary records evidenced in this |
Incredible relic, whilst simultaneously cross referencing the resultant lore |
With information gleaned from other sources on the same theoretical subject |
I have been able to extrapolate a meaning from the arcane carvings which |
Transcends all but my most fevered imaginings. |
What mighty cyclopean structures |
Once towered skyward where now only the desolate wind-whipped ice-wastes |
Endure? |
What splendid peoples once throve where now only the hardiest and most |
Resistant forms of life subsist? |
This ancient and wondrous testament is truly |
An elucidatory blessing to such idealistic questors as I, who are forever |
In Search Of The Lost Cities Of Antarctica: |