Thousand Years of Sand Lyrics

Like a fruit
In the rotten garden
Like a soul
In the river Styx

Like a stone
In the unending desserts
Like a word
In the city of Babylon

Not understood
Yet true and spoken
The sun is reached
With wax and feathers

Where worlds collide
Between Euphrates and Tigris
The setting sun
In the Occident

Where monuments
Serve as tombstones
Just to serve the dead

And what did it lead to
Thousand years of sand
A civilization
Collapsed in itself

And what did it lead to
Thousand years of sand
Thousand years of wisdom
Yet just remorse

Where dynasties
Erect themselves
The fertile crescent
Shines for the realm

Mesopotamia
Land of the gods
And nothing left
But sand and stone

The library of Assure
The temple of Ara-li
Legacies burnt to the ground
Forgotten and vanished in sand

And what did it lead to
Thousand years of sand
A civilization
Collapsed in itself

And what did it lead to
Thousand years of sand
Thousand years of wisdom
Yet just remorse

Nothing less and nothing more
Nothing less and nothing more
Nothing less and nothing more
Nothing less and nothing more