The Tower in Shinar Lyrics

I enter the land of the mighty hunter
Who covers himself from above
Where the shadowed mother was conceived,
Where the nations first drank of her blood

Enter the gateway and see the grandeur
Behold the city which touches the sky
The air is choked with the burning of stones
As the people crY:

Ascending... Across the plains of Asshur
Ascending... Into the land of Sumer
Ascending... Beyond the gates of Ishtar
Ascending... To the tower in Shinar

From Nineveh to Erech
The hunter has gathered them all
Sweeping the Earth into a frenzy
To worship at the mother's throne

Enter the gateway and see the grandeur
Behold the city which touches the sky
The air is choked with the burning of stones
As the people crY:

Ascending... Across the plains of Asshur
Ascending... Into the land of Sumer
Ascending... Beyond the gates of Ishtar
Ascending... To the tower in Shinar

"The waters shall not rise
above our scared ground"

"Let us be known, let us be favoured
"us reach the heavens,
let us make a name"
"Consecrate this tower to defy the sky"

The heavens break their fetters
As a cloud of light descends
Fear preys on the hunter,
The mother and their head

Confounded in their terror
The slaves of the tower cry
Yet the ancient tongue is broken;
The voice of defiance dies

The fallen shrine casts shadows
That will plague humanity
The deified mortal souls
Fall screaming on their knees

Forty days of mourning,
Forty days of sorrow
They weep in vain for the bastard child
Tammuz: the lord of nothing

"The lamentation continues...
The lamentation must be kept...
The lamentation continues...
The lamentation must be kept... Weep..."

The order is scattered abroad
The burning stones are forsaken
Shinar's crown reigns in anguish
The mighty hunter lies in desolation

Yet the mother grasps the wealth
That her whoredom has supplied
Adorned in purple robes
To cover the great mystery inside

Upon a beast she rides,
To deceive and subdue
She wears abomination,
The crown with which she shall rule