Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Essential Salts, artist - Nile.
Date of issue: 19.07.2007
Song language: English
The Essential Salts |
The necromancers of Giza |
A cult of reanimators |
Concerned with interrogation of the long dead |
Corpses who may be revived and made to talk |
And describe the contents of rare books |
And gold hidden in the earth |
Although they are often reluctant to reveal their secrets |
And must be encouraged with fire and blade |
A corpse chosen for resurrection |
Is cut into parts of convenient size |
Boiled in clean water |
Linen strips of mummification are removed |
And the skull and bones liquefied |
And boiled until all water is gone |
What remains in the bottom |
Is a white crystalline substance |
That may be carried in the palms of two hands |
This white powder contains the essential salts |
Of the man whose corpse was boiled |
It is from this powder that the living body may be reconstituted |
And made to serve as a house for the soul |
Which is called back into its former flesh by words of power |
It is a great shock to the soul |
To tear it back from its resting place and reanimate it The resurrected are often insane and scream ceaselessly or dash themselves into |
walls |
If the salts are contaminated with the essence of other living beings |
When the mummy has been the breeding place of vermin |
The revitalization of the salts produces something |
That is part man and part whatever gnawed his corpse |
These horrors lack the faculty of speech |
Or their speech is crazed and bestial |
And must be immediately slain |
For though the memory of the man may remain intact |
The verminous parts of his reanimated nature |
Inhibit his human expression |
Those who have served their purpose are killed |
By strangulation with a cord around the neck |
And their bodies burned |
Their ashes gathered and cast into the Nile |
Where the currents carry them to sea |