1. DEAD MECHANISM

(Instrumental)


2. LAST WITNESS

A blast, the air blazes,
And in the jets roar,
The launch sequence come to an end.
Liff off
Slowly at first and faster then,
Powerful jets gradually thrust
My spaceship into the blackening sky.
Just a few instants and I leave behind

My immortality lets me understand
The whole vessel and its functions,
A wonderful machine,
Now self-regenerating its depleted energies.

I stare at my planet, what remains of the earth,
Mother earth, humanity's fertile bride,
Now bereft of life, swept by solar storms.

No more, I turn my back
And the solar system fades away.
My choice to leave the immortal gods kingdom,
Uruk's divinities, to attend to men's craft
Maybe was not such a failure. Maybe...

Days and years come to an end
And I meet in my travel every kind of beings :
Wanderers, colonist, fugitives and warriors,
Space travellers from other dimensions,
I must be careful,
The children are my mission, my purpose

I must protect them from cosmic predators,
Primordial and huge shaped parasites
Driven by hunger and instinct,
Beings of pure thought and energy.
They enter your mind and create false images,
A doomed reality where failure's your only destiny.

I must protect the children.
Each and every moment,
And nothing else matters.
The fragile and defenceless future
Shall become the cradle of a new humanity,
Resting in hibernation for now.

I've observed thousand of planets and constellations,
My quest is a hard one,
Hard to evaluate...
But maybe, that flickering light
In the blackest of darkness..
Could it be what I'm looking for so desperately ?
It might be, now I'm sure, there it is !
I must hurry, examine new reports,

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Process the new data my sensors are feeding me...
Maybe it is our last chance


3. GILGAMESH

My heart is crushed
By delusion,By the weight of my failure.

I've treated all the roads of the world,
I've taken mankind by hand,
Leading men towards their goals,
But they were always one step ahead.

Still I recall the joy I felt when I first saw
The smoke rise in the air,
Through the green woods,
In my primordial past.
The past is now clutching the ashes
Of my hope, of my dream.
I open my hands, and all I see is dust,
My mind adrift in history :
The great legend of Uruk, when I became its king,
And then Alexander who I called friend.
I touched by hand ancient Greece splendour.
and Rome,
A small riverside village,
The centre of the world,
Republic and empire.

Like me, immortal, but never alone.
Frustrated by my constant delay,
I watched progress and new discoveries growing every day,
And men finding new ways towards destruction and oblivion.
Maybe, in the end, the great civilizations were aiming for this.
Warrior, artilleryman, corsair, mercdnary, king, alone,

Gilgamesh.

now, the colours and sounds that filled my life are gone,
Destroyed by nuclear wars.
But maybe, there is still a chance to save mankind,
A chance given by man itself.

I will rule this vessel and learn to live in it,
I will search the cosmos to find a new world
Where my race will be born again.
Destiny's in my hands, I shall be its guardian.
Gilgamesh, immortal and wanderer,
I shall leave.


4. PRIMORDIAL

My mind awakens from the sleep,
A thunderstorm
Overflows with lightning
Bolts my brain.
My body aches from this
Eternal rest, it's hard to move.
I feel the warm wind sweep
The dust from my body
I feel, I feel my flesh
No longer numb as blood flows
...Blood flows through my veins,

Like the earth
That longs for a much
Attented rainfall
I raise myself.

A primordial landscape
Fills my eyes,
Where lava and poisonous vapors dwell.
Now it rains, an entire sea
Falling to the ground.
I share the earth's greed,
Her need to give life... once more.

I am Gilgamesh the immortal,
My mind is adrift through the wait,
Images from my past fly above me.

I reflect on my condition of demigod,
As I travel among mortal men.
I awaken from my slumber on
Newborn spring grass,
And as I breathe,
Immense forests surround me.

Now, from high above,
I see in the distance pinnacles of smoke.

A primordial landscape
Fills my eyes,
Where lava and poisonous vapors dwell.
Now it rains, an entire sea
Falling to the ground.
I share the earth's greed,
Her need to give life... once more.

I am Gilgamesh the immortal,
My mind is adrift through the wait,
Images from my past fly above me.

My mind awakens
From its sleep,
A thunderstorm overflows
With lightning
Bolts my brain.
My body aches from this
Eternal rest,
It's hard to move.
I feel the warm
Wind sweep
The dust from my body.


5. THE SIEGE

The sun is rising warm in the wind,
Flags stir with pride.
the air whirls, alive in the dust
And fragile it withers under the
Horses hooves.
The armies stand ready,
Soldiers waiting,
Fierceness in their eyes,
Gripping their swords with courage.
One thousand men wielding
Their shining halberds,
Blood thirsty,
Flesh devouring iron.
The ground is shaking
Under the captains mighty
And noble steeds.
The armies line up
Covering the plain.

Archers aplenty,
On the castl walls,
They form a lethal coil.
The sun is now high in the sky,
The order is given.
A roar !

Siege machines open a breach,
But the enemy's arrow and darts
Darken the air.
Catapults hurl their missiles
Overthrowing men and beast alike
And the never ending, deafening sound of steel
Piercing, hurting and slashing.

Now the steel no longer bites,
While the cry of mutilation fills the air.
Thick black smoke covers the corpses,
Horror, the one and only fruit
Of this spring of death.
How much blood may this earth drink ?

With rage and despair the castle doors yield.
The invasion is like a river
Which forcefully break off its banks.
the sun is now setting.
The dust is slowly settling.
A blood red sunset hails

The crows arrival
To a garden of guts and entrails.
they are the real winners in their feast.


6. DUELLISTS

Crude and dissonant the laugh
Like lightning, illuminating the dark
Breaking the hissing wind
Accomplices the eyes full of madness
Pregnant with the seeds of the hatred

They arm with blades the stare
Onward is stares andlessly
In the defiant duellist and strike the mirror in the face of other
They both ambody the same thought and matter gush
They both ambody the same thought and matter gush

Will the mountains and the valleys
Testify that site one day ?
Will someone tell those ancient deeds
Ever after the soft fall
Of lady dust mistress and keeper of time past

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Maybe time itself ?

A bell tolls of blood soaked moments
And so the sword are raised to the skies
With the slaughtering clang
Sudden flashes of shining death
Tinge the long shadows, shadows sleeping on
Those oft beds of ancient rock night immortal

Queen life sits down and rests
A side she wants for doom
She lost her throne, now in the hands
Of earthly life value

The beaten fighter, hardly stands
With the help of his arm.
A tear rolls on his lips dry with rage,
He sees insoak the barren ground

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The fury is soothed

In front of him stands the glorious foe his sword
Dancing, like the united forces
Of the world in explodes touching the living flesh

The joy of victory in his dimmed mind
Enter and with a kind, carries leavs on his face
The prize of remorse and penitence of vain redemption

A bell tolls of blood soaked moments
And so the sword are raised to the skies
With the slaughtering clang
Sudden flashes of shining death

They arm with blades the stare
Onward is stares andlessly
In the defiant duellist and strike the mirror in the face of other.


7. THE TEMPLE OF TWO QUEENS

In the time of the first era of the new age,
The lands had lost their names,
And still did not have a new one.
The holy wars between Heaven and Men
Had come to an end, balance was found.

But something evil was stalking the peace,
You could read it in the elements.
While a new generation was dawning,
The two queens sovranity was proclaimed from the void,
And the newborn peace was torn shreds.

Sinde then, a long time has passed,
The legend was almost ost in the sands of time.
However, it is said that the evil maidens
Were born from on the earth impregnating it.

The memories recall them as living deaths,
Famine and eternal wars.
Their thirst for power unquenched
Their wickedness was second to none.

Now, against impossible odds,
Men have regained their valour and dignity.
As areminder of the queen's doùain,
The temple of pain has remained,
Evil's colony, gallery of torment.

It's horrible building was made out of baked stones
Of bones blood and tears.
It's black towers arose sacrilegious
Provoking the celestial reigns
It's walls covered with gruesome tapestries
Of bowels, now turned to venomous dust

In it's halls you could find all the torture devices of the world :
Spike wheels, ropes, blades of all kind, fire and poison,
Everything was a means to gradual humiliation.


8. UNHOLY BIRTH

At the dawn of time
The war over humankind
And the angels of heaven
Came to an end
But the world feel
Into absolute chaos and delirium...

Righteous victory was at hand
At the prize of rivers of heavenly blood
Darkness in human life was bound to the eternal.
Infernal revenge
Was unleashed villages,
Cities and realms were ravaged
By fires and earthquakes.
New diseases found their way
Into that craddle of death and filth
Thousand of women and infants
Were raped, killed and divoured
By the demon soldiers infected jaws.
Men went mad and their armies disbanded.

The angels sword chased away evil,
But is bloodripping shadow lingered.
During the storm that washed away the scars of war
And gave new life to the earth,
Black diamonds, Satan's seed, fell into the lake of the world.

The moment the stones touched the lake surface
Silence struck the thunder's fury and the rain's din,
While crimson and red became, the lake's waters
Like blood they flowed.
The earth underneath the lake was cracked open,
Lava gushed out and clouds of diseased vapors filled the air.

In this primordial scenary, the evil's princess and cocubines,
Hell's war mistress, were born
Among the waves, the two bodies struggled to the shore,
The earth shaking to the unholy presence,
After the moment of their birth,
The element screamed their anguish again.
The women covered with blood red slime,
Ran their lustful tongues over their flesh
Uncovering their naked and pale bodies
Filled with luxury and pervertion.

With them a new scheme of satanic conquest
Saw the light
Black claws will cut off the new king's wings
And the dawn shall come no more.


9. THE SAILOR

The hull slashes
The water's flesh with ease.
The wind carries
The perfume of millennia,

And it feeds my senses.
My mind is finally free
From those dark
Thoughts that weight down my soul.

I am the captain
Of a friendly and faithful crew :
An inexpert sailor
And a wise helmsman.

Sure, ours is madness,
But who cares ?

We already know
What we will find,
The birth of our dreams,
And arent't dreams the currency of madness ?

The journey was an easy one,
Though very long,
And here we are now
On the edge of an endless waterfall.

The roar of the waves is such that the air
Around us is overwhelmed in awe.
We head towards the fall and we fly
We head towards the fall and we fly

The anchor of our fears
Now rests on the bottom of the sea
And we will sail through the stars
And the constellations will be our isles,
Space, the dark ocean, will lead us
To our unreal and absurd destination,

But one that belongs only to us.

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The sails swell, the speed increases,
Our courage of steel for a fate of gold.

We already know what we will find,
The birth of our dreams,
And arent't dreams the currency of madness ?
The journey was an easy one, though very long,
And here we are now on the edge of an endless waterfall.

The roar of the waves
Is such that the air
Around us is overwhelmed in awe.
We head towards the fall and we fly
The anchor of our fears
Now rests on the bottom of the sea
And we will sail through the stars
And the constellation will be our isles.

The sails swell, the speed increases,
Our courage of steel for a fate of gold.


10. LIKE A DISTANT THUNDER

High above
From my chamber, I admire
My legion of warriors,
Indomitable killer.

In dark contemplation
My mind drift away from the stillness
Of my ancient limbs
Calm I listen to
I listen to the advice of my slavish
Fearful cursed element

I feel, I feel, I feel, the blood of terror
Gush through my lips
As it flows on my ice coloured hands
It forms a stream on the black
Satin of my noble pallet like a river of pitch

My sight is caught by the grail
Symbol of my eternal meal
The reflection blinds me
And memory of battles
My sight is caught by the grail
Symbol of my eternal meal
The reflection blinds me
And memory of battles haunts me

Acclamations and hails sound like distant
Thunder beyond the walls
Distracting me from oblivion and from sleep

I see my army in the never ending war
Against the celestial host
I see ocean of blood where bowels covered waves
Crash on strand of broken bones
Home to vultures and worms
A soul rain of bile cover
This theatre of anger and death

Not to reveal with its light
Horrid cracks tear a fearful heart
Like screaming mounths they swallow
The merciful disgrace
Acclamations and hails sound like distant
Thunder beyond the walls
Distracting me from oblivion and from sleep
They revive my fury and my oath

With a nod command I show
Then the gates of hell
Open to a new era of dominance
And the fetid, morbid path that leads
To the enchanting world's death.