Gilgamesh and Enkidu (part 1)

Verse 1

Gilgamesh walked the cedar wood

Two-thirds god and none that could

Stand before his hungry blade

Till the wild one was made

Enkidu from the clay and steam

Woke beside the running stream

Chorus

Brothers bound by mud and might

One who wrestles, one who writes

They broke the forest, felled the pines

Humbaba's roar in serpent vines

Gilgamesh and Enkidu

Side by side the dream comes true

Verse 2

The goddess sent the bull of fire

Horned and throwing down the spire

They caught its haunch in either hand

And pinned its fury to the sand

But Ishtar's wrath fell cold and fast

She swore the two would not outlast

Chorus

Brothers bound by mud and might

One who wrestles, one who writes

They broke the forest, felled the pines

Humbaba's roar in serpent vines

Gilgamesh and Enkidu

Side by side the dream comes true

Bridge

Then the fever climbed the wild man's chest

Enkidu lay down to rest

"Brother, do not weep for me

The gate of dust is what I see"

Gilgamesh tore his crown and cried

"My half of me has turned to tide"

Verse 3

He walked the same road she had walked

Seven gates where the sealed ones talked

To the root where the plant of youth

Grew green beneath the serpent's tooth

But the snake came slinking through the reeds

And stole the branch that would undo the deeds

Chorus

Brothers bound by mud and might

One who wrestles, one who writes

They broke the forest, felled the pines

Humbaba's roar in serpent vines

Gilgamesh and Enkidu

Side by side the dream