Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Book Of Thel, artist - Bruce Dickinson.
Date of issue: 03.07.1998
Song language: English
Book Of Thel |
The mark is on you now |
The furnace sealed inside your head |
Melting from the inside now |
Waxy tears run down your face |
The whore that never told her tale |
Relives it every night with you |
Far off stands the lamb and waits |
For the wolf to come and end its life |
Stand inside the temple |
As the book of Thel is opening |
The priestess stands before you |
Offering her hand out, she’s rising |
Come the dawning of the dead |
In famine and in war |
Now the harlot womb of death |
Spits out its rotten core |
Serpent on the altar now |
Has wrapped itself around your spine |
So you look into its mouth |
And you kiss the pearly fangs divine |
Happy that your end is swift |
The weeping virgin cries in bliss |
The snake and priestess, they are one |
The veil of flesh is ripped undone |
Stand inside the temple |
As the book of Thel is opening |
The priestess stands before you |
Offering her hand out, she’s rising |
Come the dawning of the dead |
In famine and in war |
Now the harlot womb of death |
Spits out its rotten core |
By the pricking of my thumbs |
Something wicked this way comes |
And when sleep takes you tonight |
Will you wake to see the light??? |
(woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) |
(woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) |
(oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) |
(oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) |
The burning sweat of poison tears |
The river flowing red with blood |
The cradle — robbing hand of death |
Caresses every dreaming head |
Waiting for the marriage hearse |
To take you to the funeral pyre |
So you burn the family tree |
The generations burning higher |
Stand inside the temple |
As the book of Thel is opening |
The priestess stands before you |
Offering her hand out, she’s rising |
Come the dawning of the dead |
In famine and in war |
Now the harlot womb of death |
Spits out its rotten core |
By the pricking of my thumbs |
Something wicked this way comes |
And when sleep takes you tonight |
Will you wake to see the light |
By the dawning of the dead… |
By the dawning of the dead… |
By the dawning of the dead… |
By the dawning of the dead… |
What demon hath formed this abominable void… |
This soul-shuddering vacuum? |
Some said it is Urizen — |
But unknown, abstracted, brooding secret |
The dark power hid |