Ritual of the Zisurrû

Verse 1: Sparse, eerie

For salt is cast in circles wide

When copper bell has rung

There is no place that you could hide

The silver veil was hung

Build

Old Ah-sipu begins to trace

Ghost symbols on your brow

To seek the light in this dark place

To take this ancient vow

Pre-Chorus: Rising tension

The roots are reaching for your feet

Where the iron and the marrow meet

Ancient sin falls to retreat

Chorus: Soaring

Sew you hear the Irkalla call?

Calling forth the empires fall?

How the earth begins to bloom

Spilling from this hollowed room

Fire falls to thunder roll

Abet the stone... consume your soul.

Drum solo

Verse 2: Dark

Pour the milk into the trench

For those who dwell below

The cedar smoke, the heavy stench

Where black-hided shadows grow

Crescendo: Epic

The Zisurrû is drawn in dust

To keep those demons bound

Relinquish now your mortal trust

Listen to obey the ground

Pre-Chorus: Guitars chugging

The Kudu stone is bleeding red

The ancient words are finally said

To join the living with the dead

Chorus 2: soaring

Can you hear the Apsu weep?

Can you feel the secrets keep?

Now the earth has claimed the prize

Reflected in your hollow eyes

Can you feel the thunder break?

I came here to... take what’s left of you.

Bridge: breakdown

Seven gates were built in stone

Seven names were once your own

Leave the copper, leave the gold

Let the velvet dark unfold

Bridge: build

Through the Kore, through the night

Loose your hunger for the light

Through the Kore, through the night

BECOME THE SEED. BECOME THE RITE.

Guitar Solo

Outro

The ritual is done...

The two are now the one...

By the Me of Inanna.

By the salt of the Zisurrû.

By the deep breath of Apsu.

BECOME THE EARTH.

BECOME THE EARTH.

End