Tiamat's Teeth

Verse 1

Saltless womb stirs beneath the mud

Primordial she seethes

Scales of chaos braid the flood

And gnash the ancient seas

Mother of monsters mother of grime

Her jaw unhinges wide

Eleven thrones of brackish time

Collapse inside the tide

Chorus

TIAMAT

Coil and crush the firmament

TIAMAT

Drowned dominion never spent

Verse 2

Marduk wades through churning bile

Wind-knives in his hand

Splits her belly mile on mile

And chains her to the sand

But her ghost still grinds the stone

Her spawn still crawl the deep

Every ocean bone alone

A kingdom left to sleep

Chorus

TIAMAT

Coil and crush the firmament

TIAMAT

Drowned dominion never spent

Bridge

Chaos-crowned and cold

Her entrails forge the sky

Sun and moon from ribs of gold

A carcass that won't die

Guttural and grinding low

The abyss begins to speak

The saltless deep begins to grow

And swallows all the meek

Chorus

TIAMAT

Coil and crush the firmament

TIAMAT

Drowned dominion never spent

Verse 3

Every war begins in brine

Every throne is built on bone

Her scattered heart still drinks the line

Where the world was overthrown

So when the earth forgets its name

And the heavens crack like shale

She will rise from rot and flame

And swallow the great whale

Outro

TIAMAT

TIAMAT

Swallow the great whale

Swallow the great whale